
Talent and Effort
If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort. ~ Dave Weinbaum My talents are limited. I can write – I’m not an amazing

If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort. ~ Dave Weinbaum My talents are limited. I can write – I’m not an amazing

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining – it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn’t solve any problems. –

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. – Henry Ward Beecher My students today had a hard time with this quote

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. – Robert Baden-Powell I admit to being more than

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire The pursuit of of our goals

What’s coming is better than what is gone. Let this belief aim you in the direction you need to go. – Karen Salmonsohn Sorry

Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it. – Merida, Brave I love Disney movies…they impact us

Our fate lives within us, you only have to be brave enough to see it. – Merida, Brave I love Disney movies…they impact us

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr And once again, I am amazed

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