For all Graduates during this 2011 commencement season:
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~Henry David Thoreau
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And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!
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Monday Motivational Quote
I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. ~Jackie Robinson
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And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!
Monday Motivational Quote
You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. ~Ralph Marsden
And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!
Monday Motivational Quote
You are wherever your thoughts are. Make sure your thoughts are where you want to be. ~Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Source: The Empty Chair, Finding Hope and Joy
And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!
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Wednesday Wide Smile
Thanks to, Susan, a long-time Feed Your Good Dog friend and supporter, for the Fable of the Porcupine to remind us to appreciate the good qualities in others.
Fable of the Porcupine
It was the coldest winter ever.
Many animals died because of the cold.
The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together.
They were covered and protected, but the quills of each wounded the closest companion.
After a while, they decided to distance themselves, and they began to die, alone and frozen.
So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth.
Wisely, they decided to go back to being together.
They learned to live with the little wounds that were caused by their close relationships because the most important part was the heat that came from the others.
They were able to survive.
The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people, but the one that forms when individuals learn to live with the imperfections and admire the good qualities of others.
And, remember…Feed Your Good Dog, so your good dog always wins!
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Monday Motivational Quote
Thank you, Teresa, for your gift of Norman Vincent Peale’s Positive Thinking Every Day! Dr. Peale influenced the world with his philosophy of positive thinking. The following is an excerpt from the book’s introduction, which he wrote on January 13, 1993:
I think that quotations from great thinkers can profoundly affect one’s life. … The thought struck me so forcefully that it vitally affected my total faith and still does.
The truth of it seemed certain. I believed it. I accepted it. From my personal background I associated personal change with faith and in a flash of insight knew that I could change my life by changing my attitude. I have been advocating that truth about people people ever since. ~Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993).
Source: Positive Thinking Every Day – Norman Vincent Peale – © 1993
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