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Words of encouragement by our fountain fathers to brighten our day

1. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 2. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ~Arthur Ashe 3. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ~Anne Frank 4. “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” ~Alexander Graham Bell 5. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”~Helen Keller 6. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” ~Harriet Beecher Stowe 7. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt 8. “If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, i...