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If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.
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Collection: Life Changing
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At the end of the day - the long day of your life - as people stand around your grave no one will talk about how big your house was, or how many cars you owned, or your boat or plane... they will only talk about ONE thing and ONE thing ONLY: LOVE! How much you loved them and how much they loved you. So the goal then is to live a life of love. That is all.
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Collection: Thinking
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Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.
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Collection: Life Changing
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No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.
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Collection: Life Changing
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When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.
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Collection: Life Changing
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When values are clear, decisions are easy.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
- John Spence
Collection: Life Changing
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Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem... You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
- John Spence
Collection: Life Changing
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When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.
- John Spence
Collection: Life Changing
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Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.
- John Spence
Collection: Being Yourself
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Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.
- John Spence
Collection: Love You
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If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.
- John Spence
Collection: Heart
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Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
- John Spence
Collection: Encouraging
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Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.
- John Spence
Collection: Strong Women
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Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.
- John Spence
Collection: Love You
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You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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Don't think of cost. Think of value.
- John Spence
Collection: Life Changing
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My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
- John Spence
Collection: Life Changing
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People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.
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Collection: Thinking
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You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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Sometimes people don't notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.
- John Spence
Collection: Life Changing
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Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.
- John Spence
Collection: Life Changing
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Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It's about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.
- John Spence
Collection: Sex
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People are more what they hide than what they show.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.
- John Spence
Collection: Growing Up
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Vision = Focus / Focus = Attention / Attention = Action /Action = Results / Consistent Results = Destiny
- John Spence
Collection: Destiny
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
- John Spence
Collection: Distance
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Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.
- John Spence
Collection: Attitude
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Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.
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Collection: Thinking
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What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.
- John Spence
Collection: Life Changing
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Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.
- John Spence
Collection: Best Friend
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Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind. Be understanding.
- John Spence
Collection: Fighting
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Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.
- John Spence
Collection: Lonely
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Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.
- John Spence
Collection: Inspirational
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We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.
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Collection: Thinking
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When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.
- John Spence
Collection: Thinking
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Your Day Is Your Life
- John Spence
Collection: Life Changing
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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
- John Spence
Collection: Mistake
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Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.
- John Spence
Collection: Falling In Love

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