'Life's Treasure Book' -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I've learned that...

...I've never regretted the nice things i've said about people.
"Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another." Rom 12:10

...Children need loving the most when they are the hardest to love.

...If you let your integrity slip just a little, it can have lasting consequences.

...A happy person is not a person with a cetain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." Rom 8:28

...Never ignore evil.
"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." Eph 6:11

...The older i get, the more i appreciate the times my parents said no.
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right." Eph 6:1

...A torch loses no heat by lighting a thousand torches.
"Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house." Matt 5:15

...People will remember how you treated them long after they have forgotten what you were wearing.
"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?" Matt 6:25

...I don't need more to be thankful for; I need to be thankful more.
"In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." 1 Thess 5:18

...If you want your children to be good readers, let them see you read.
"For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you." John 13:15

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Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his deathbed, "Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office."

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiently, who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
-Theodore Roosevelt

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.
I believe in the sacredness of a promise, that a man's word should be as good as his bond; that character- not wealth or power or position- is of supreme worth.
I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world; that it alone can overcome hate; that right can and will triumph over might.
-Excerpts from The Rockfeller Creed


Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work will be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
-Phillip Brooks

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor...
Rejoice in your hope,
Be patient in tribulation,
Be constant in prayer.
-Rom 12:9-12 (RSV)

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quiet your modesty, or incline you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.
-Marcus Aurelius


Love people more than things.

Remember that when you take inventory of the things in life you treasure most, you'll find that none of them was purchased with money.

Do not care overly much for wealth or power or fame, or one day you will meet someone who cares for none of these things, and you will realise how poor you have become.
-Rudyard Kipling

Many of the things you can count, don't count.
Many of the things you can't count, really count.
-Albert Einstein

Cherish your children for what they are, not for what you want them to be.

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer tha they loved them.
-Christopher Morley


Let life be your sermon.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
-Henrik Ibsen

A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
-Ernest Bramah

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an art but a habit.
-Aristotle

We- all of us, but especially the young- need around us individuals who possess a certain nobility, a language of soul, and qualities of human excellence worth imitating and striving for. Every person knows this, which is why parents are concerned with both the company their children keep and th rold models they choose. Children watch what we do as well as what we say, and if we expect them to take morality seriously, they must see adults taking it seriously.
-William J. Bennett


Remember that no situation is so bad that losing your temper won't make it worse.

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, tolerant with the weak, and forgiving with the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
-Lloyd Shearer

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heros, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
-Helen Keller

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Don't forget that what you are thinking about,
you are becoming.