TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1
VALUE WORDS that speak to messages of truth.
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Give me my flowers while I can smell them.
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We can cry because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
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You have your whole life to be grown. Enjoy childhood moments!
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This too shall pass.
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Take care of the pennies and the nickels and the dollars will take care of themselves.
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I’ve never seen an armored car following a hearse.
CHAPTER 2
OBSERVE LIFE as it speaks.
- Life is lived forward and understood backwards.
- You can’t pour anything from an empty cup.
- Nothing flows out of an empty hand, mind or heart.
- Heed not the message without considering the messenger.
- The only dumb question is the one you don’t ask.
- Never say never!
CHAPTER 3
INSPIRED INFLUENCES or infectious influences encompass our lives from the day we’re born.
- When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear.
- The best way to have a friend is to be a friend.
- Use everyone, but don’t misuse anyone.
- Quitters never win and winners never quit.
- All that glitter’s ain’t gold.
- Don’t let your lips overload your hips.
CHAPTER 4
CONSCIOUSLY CREATE in your life through your words.
- You are not what you think you are. But what you THINK, you are!
- You don’t plant ‘matoes and get ‘tatoes.
- Everything is easier when you learn how.
- Give me a fish, I’ll eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I’ll eat for a lifetime.
- Don’t live your life through rose colored glasses.
- Love the YOU in the mirror.
CHAPTER 5
EVOKE ACTION by speaking the life you desire into existence.
- If you ain’t sellin’ don’t advertise!
- What you don’t use, you lose!
- Follow the beat of your heart’s drum.
- What you run from you run with!
- What you do speaks so loudly I can’t hear a word you say!
- Reach for the moon, so should you fall, it will be among the stars!
