Do Not Defeat Yourself

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Photo by Steve Johnson

“Do not defeat yourself by holding spiteful or jealous thoughts.“- Norman Vincent Peale

Your life is more important than jealous thoughts. Your life is more powerful than hateful thoughts. Do not destroy your life by living with jealous or hateful thoughts. Instead, you can replace them with love thoughts. Because love never fails! If you believe in the power of love, love will always follow you. If you sow love, that is what you will get. If you sow happiness, that is what you will get. If you put people first, people will put you first. Life is too short to waste. Do not defeat yourself.

What Do You Stand For?

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Photo by Steve Johnson

Harry S. Truman said, “I don’t believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.”

To stand for something is harder than to stand for nothing. If you don’t stand for something, how can you become something?

What do you stand for? Do you stand for love? Do you stand for happiness? Do you stand for humanity? Do you stand for empathy? Do you stand for compassion? Do you stand for Peace? Do you stand for justice?

The choice is yours. But whatever you stand for, use it to change your life. Whatever you stand for, use it to change the world. Whatever you stand for, use it to heal your soul. Because it is important to stand for something. If you don’t stand for something, you stand for nothing. And if you stand for nothing, you become nothing. Do you want to become nothing? Or do you want to become something? It depends on what you stand for.

What do you stand for?