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(Fiddler on the Roof) Sunrise, sunset...sun rise, sunset:
                                   Swiftly  fly the years.
                                   One season follows another
                                    Ladened with happiness and tears

(Swindoll)  Defines a friend as someone you can lean on, talk to, laugh with, cry with, learn from, and walk beside

(Swindoll) The best lessons are caught, not taught

(Swindoll) On the cross the  victim became the victor

(Swindoll) God never waste times of testing. Do we?

(Swindoll) Don't substitute the artificial for the authentic

(Swindoll) Where are you going? What's your game plan for the next ten years? A decade from now you will rip the December sheet off your calendar wondering, " How did ten years  go by so fast"?"

(Swindoll) Tact is avoiding unnecessary offense. It's basic function is a keen sense of what to say and do in order to maintain the truth and good relationships. It is incessantly appropriate, invariably attractive, inevitably appealing, but rare... or, so rare!

(Swindoll)  No God? All by chance? Who are you kidding?

(Swindoll) Reading sweeps the mental cobwebs away, increases our power of concentration, and makes us more interesting to be around

(Swindoll) The average American is exposed to over three hundred advertisements a day. Before you realize it, the Madison Avenue Pied Piper has led you into a world of exaggerated make-believe, convincing you that you simply cannot do without __________. And what is the message? In a word--discontentment. Dissatisfaction. It creates a restless drive for more...or better...or bigger

(Swindoll) Becoming a contented person is a process, never an instant decision

(Swindoll) Hold material things loosely. Refuse to leave Lake Contentment in search of some shallow stream that will surely dry up

(Tom Landry) I have a job to do that is not very complicated, but it is often difficult: to get  a group of men to do what they don't want to do so that they can achieve the one thing they have wanted all their lives

(Swindoll) So much of what results in a fulfilled life is really the product of contradiction. For example, the way to show yourself wise is not so much by speech as by silence. Forgiveness is the key to handling our enemies, not revenge

Story is told of  a fella who said that he and his wife had three children in three years. He said he was better off than a man who had three million dollars . Why? Because the rich man wants more.

(Swindoll) Many a soul starts priming the pump of worry before they get the morning paper. All sorts of energy is burned up and the mind runs up and down the dark alleys of imagining dread

(Swindoll) defines discontentment as " enough is just not enough"

(Swindoll)  Do you view change as a challenge, a fresh breeze that flows through the room of routine and blows away the stale air of sameness?

(Swindoll) God did not give us His Word to satisfy our curiosity. He gave it to change our lives