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It always puzzled me how in elementary and middle school, kids label themselves a certain faith. I used to hear little debates about religion, kids saying “I’m Catholic” or “I’m Jewish”; and I wondered how anyone could know for sure at such an age. All these kids know is that they have to go to Church every Sunday and believe in what the speaker on stage preaches. My family never seemed to participate in organized religion, so I didn’t know what it really meant to believe in a faith. Then I got to thinking that almost 100% percent of this is influenced by parents. Children are automatically funneled into these various religions without any knowledge or opinions about the other ones, and as a result they continue on that path for the rest of their lives. There comes a point when you must decide for yourself what spirituality you want to follow. But why would anyone tell their Christian family they are going to start being Jewish tomorrow? If only every kid had exposure to all different religions and was able to believe in something they feel fits them; however, that isn’t how society works. With parental molding and societal pressures, there is a decision to be made. Learn about other religions and develop your own belief system, or follow the path that was already paved for you. You can become an individual and approach life from the angle that defines //you//, or continue to trail behind your parents like ducklings.

Life is like a coin You can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once



It should not be denied that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations. Absolute freedom. And the road has always led west.



The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences. When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it



Go forth under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings



Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we are never, any of us, more than one-fourth fulfilled



Learn from yesterday, Live for today, Hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

No one lives on the top of the mountain. It’s fine to go there occasionally —for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That’s where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That’s where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks

 Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light



You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

 Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.



Do you wanna be a poet and write  Do you wanna be an actor up in lights  Do you wanna be a soldier and fight for love  Do you wanna travel the world  Do you wanna be a diver for pearls  Or climb a mountain and touch the clouds above  Be anyone you want to be  Bring to life your fantasies



Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains



Everyone has something good about them, you have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.



I read somewhere how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong



All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.



So live, that when thy summons comes to join the innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, scourged by his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed by an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure...

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