201. One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
202. Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
203. Speak kind words and you will hear kind echoes.
204. An admission of error is a sign of strength rather than a weakness.
205. He who accepts evil withou protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
206. It doesn't take a lot of muscle to give the heart a lift.
207. Let us realize that what happens around us is largely outside our control, but that the way we choose to react to it is inside our control.
208. There's nothing wrong with being a self-made man if you don't consider the job finished too soon.
209. Be careful of your thoughts they may become words at any time.
210. Some people spend more time looking in books for answers, instead of their hearts.
211. I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
212. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
213. The price of your hat isn't the measure of your brain.
214. Frustration is not having anyone to blame but yourself.
215. The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but rather what he becomes by it.
216. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
217. Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
218. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather roses.
219. Every story has three sides: yours, mine, and the facts.
220. Don't make yourself a mouse or the cat will eat you.
221. Take time to be friendly it is the road to happiness.
222. It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing.
223. God never closes one door without opening another.
224. The greatest calamity is not to have failed, but to have failed to try.
225. The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile.
226. I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something; and what I should do and can do, by the grace of God I will do.
227. Wise men are not always silent, but know when to be.
228. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched but are felt in the heart.
229. Be careful how you live: you may be the only Bible some people will ever read.
230. There is no place to hide a sin, without the conscience looking in!
231. If we fill our hours with regrets over the failures of yesterday and with worries over the problems of tomorrow we have no today in which to be thankful.
232. What you can do or dream you can, begin it; courage has genius, power, and magic in it.
233. The fellow who worries about what people think of him wouldn't worry so much if he only knew how seldom they do.
234. You can't get anywhere today if you are still mired down in yesterday.
235. The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice you give others.
236. We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.
237. Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
238. The glory of life is to love, not to be loved; to give, not to get; to serve, not to be served.
239. He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat.
240. A freind is one who comes to you when all other leave.
241. You are not a reservoir with a limited amount of resources; you are a channel attached to unlimited divine resources.
242. The more difficult the abstacle, the stronger one becomes after hurdling it.
243. To see God in everything makes life the greatest adventure there is.
244. Some people give and forgive; others get and forget.
245. Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
246. The longer you keep your temper the more it will improve.
247. A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
248. If there is no way out there is a way up.
249. Everything comes to those who wait, if they work while they wait.
250. Sorrow look back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.
251. No matter how long you nurse a grudge, it won't get better.
252. Prayer is kind of like calling home every day.
253. You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
254. Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper-it doesn;t permanently solve any problems, but it make things more acceptable for a while.
255. When your dreams turn to dust-vacuum!
256. Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and giving in return.
257. The nice part about living in a small town is when I don't know what I am doing someone else does.
258. You can always return to a friend, like going back to a special place and finding the same warm feeling, untouched by time and distance.
259. Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
260. God will accept a broken heart, but He must have all the pieces.
261. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say, as long as you don't say it out loud.
262. Worry is like a rocking chair, it will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
263. The people who tell you never to let little things worry you have never tried sleeping in the same room with a mosquito.
264. Age is like love-it cannot be hidden.
265. Truth does not depend on a consensus of opinion.
266. Success consists of getting up just one more time than you've fallen down.
267. The most important things in your home are people.
268. If you grasp tomorrow with faith, you know the handle won't fall off.
269. Some things can be inherited, but good reputations, trust, respect, and wages must all be earned.
270. Some days you're the bug; some days, the windshield!
271. Life is easier than you think-all you have to do is this: Accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, bear the intolerable, and be able to smile at anything.
272. Being different isn't the same as making a difference.
273. If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
274. The three grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
275. If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns.
276. I finally got my head together, and my body fell apart.
277. I know things are tough right now, but just remember, every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there.
278. The Lord gave us two ends-one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
279. As you get older it's best to do things when you think of them, or you might forget.
280. God put you on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind I will never die.
281. A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
282. Joy is not the absence of suffering, but the presence of God.
283. The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.
284. A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
285. My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely.
286. At day's end, I turn all my problems over to God-He's going to be up anyway.
287. All that is worth cherishing in this world begins in the heart, not in the head.
288. A good friend puts up with your worst moods, goes along with your worst ideas, and always sees the best in you.
289. Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
290. I used to have a handle on life, but then it fell off.
291. Without Jesus we face a hopeless end. But with Jesus we have an endless hope.
292. Troubles come to pass; they do not come to stay.
293. Worry: The senseless process of using today to clutter up tomorrow's oppurtunities with leftover problems from yesterday.
294. Too many people tell the same story to the same people too many times.
295. Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
296. Even if it burns a little low at times, the secret of life is to always keep the flame of hope alive.
297. When you share your joy with others, you double each smile and each laugh; when you share your pain and sorrow, each tear is divided in half.
298. The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
299. The only condition for loving is to love without conditions.
300. Nothing is as hard to do gracefully as getting down off your high horse.
