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Welcome to take it or Leave it, a place to be inspired.

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...Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
   The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
       - Charles Swindoll

Hello Everyone! Hopefully, the words on this website will inspire some hint of passion for life. My ultimate goal in life is to have others view it with the same bittersweet glory that I choose to see it as. Life is beautiful--even in the hard times--Especially in the hard times! Each day we make it through makes us that much stronger! Life is hard, I will not say that it's not, but every second is what you make out of it. Going into a day with a positve additude will absolutely, without-a-doubt improve one's quality of life. One way I pull myself out of a stump is by reading insperational quotations from scholars, writers, and world leaders. I also find an outlet in writing "poetry" I may share some, so keep your eyes open!
 

  Some of my favorite things....

 

 Compensation
from Essays: First Series (1841)
by
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wings of Time are black and white,
Pied with morning and with night.
Mountain tall and ocean deep
Trembling balance duly keep.
In changing moon, in tidal wave,
Glows the feud of Want and Have.
Gauge of more and less through space
Electric star and pencil plays.
The lonely Earth amid the balls
That hurry through the eternal halls,
A makeweight flying to the void,
Supplemental asteroid,
Or compensatory spark,
Shoots across the neutral Dark.

Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine;
Stanch and strong the tendrils twine:
Though the frail ringlets thee deceive,
None from its stock that vine can reave.
Fear not, then, thou child infirm,
There's no god dare wrong a worm.
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts,
And power to him who power exerts;
Hast not thy share? On winged feet,
Lo! it rushes thee to meet;
And all that Nature made thy own,
Floating in air or pent in stone,
Will rive the hills and swim the sea,
And, like thy shadow, follow thee.

Isn't it beautiful.....

 

Favorite Quotations...

--Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

--What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

--How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
       - George Washington Carver
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