Spiritual Thoughts | Aspire Higher Motivational Quotes https://www.happypublishing.com/blog Think New Thoughts - Feel New Feelings Sat, 31 Aug 2019 22:36:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.2 98600175 What is Success? https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/what-is-success-2/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/what-is-success-2/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2015 05:17:17 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2709 Success is being friendly when another needs a friend, It’s in the cheery words you speak, not in the coins you lend. Success is not alone in skill and deeds of daring great, It’s in the roses that you plant beside your garden gate. Success is in the way you walk the paths of life […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/now-poem/feed/ 1 2705 Say Something Good https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/say-something-good/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/say-something-good/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2015 05:04:34 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2703 Pick out the folks you like the least and watch ’em for a while; They never waste a kindly word, they never waste a smile; They criticize their fellow men at every chance they get,They never found a human just to suit their fancy yet.   From them I guess you’d learn something if they […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/say-something-good/feed/ 2 2703 Prayer Quotes https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/prayer-quotes/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/prayer-quotes/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2015 05:04:41 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2697 Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness. -Trench The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise. -A. Maclaren I know no blessing so small as to be reasonably expected without prayer, nor any so great but may […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/prayer-quotes/feed/ 2 2697 The IF Poem https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-if-poem/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-if-poem/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 05:02:11 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2695 “IF” By Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-if-poem/feed/ 0 2695 Storms Bring Out The Eagles https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/storms-bring-out-the-eagles/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/storms-bring-out-the-eagles/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 05:00:38 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2693 Storms Bring Out The Eagles But The Little Birds Take Cover When the “storms of life” gather darkly ahead,I think of these wonderful words I once readAnd I say to myself as “threatening clouds” hoverDon’t “fold up your wings” and “run for cover” But like the eagle “spread wide your wings”and “soar far above” the […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/storms-bring-out-the-eagles/feed/ 0 2693 How Do You Tackle Your Work? https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/how-do-you-tackle-your-work/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/how-do-you-tackle-your-work/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:59:00 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2691 How Do You Tackle Your Work? How do you tackle your work each day? Are you scared of the job you find? Do you grapple the task that comes your way With a confident, easy mind? Do you stand right up to the work ahead Or fearfully pause to view it? Do you start to […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/how-do-you-tackle-your-work/feed/ 1 2691 Worth While https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/worth-while/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/worth-while/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:57:22 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2689 It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is one who will smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always comes with the years, And the smile that is worth the praises of earth Is […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/worth-while/feed/ 0 2689 Ten Commandments of How to Get Along with People https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/ten-commandments-of-how-to-get-along-with-people/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/ten-commandments-of-how-to-get-along-with-people/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:55:58 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2687 10 Commandments of How To Get Along With People 1. Keep skid chains on your tongue; always say less than you think. Cultivate a low, persuasive voice. How you say it often counts more than what you say.   2. Make promises sparingly, and keep them faithfully, no matter what it costs you.   3. Never let […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/ten-commandments-of-how-to-get-along-with-people/feed/ 1 2687 THE QUITTER https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-quitter/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-quitter/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:53:53 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2685 Fate handed the quitter a bump, and he dropped;The road seemed too rough to go, so he stopped.He thought of his hurt, and there came to his mindThe easier path he was leaving behind.“Oh, it’s all much too hard,” said the quitter right then;“I’ll stop where I am and not try it again.”He sat by […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-quitter/feed/ 1 2685 The High Place https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-high-place/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-high-place/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:50:55 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2683 The young man stood beneath the shade of the juniper, staring upward at the sheer face of the cliff.  It reared its head above him, stretching nearly a thousand feet upward, to end in a sharp point that the old ones had called The High Place. The hill had once been considered sacred, he knew, […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-high-place/feed/ 0 2683 A Stranger “The Reverence Poem” https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/a-stranger-the-reverence-poem/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/a-stranger-the-reverence-poem/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:49:03 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2681 “The Reverence Poem” A Stranger stood by the old Church door, His clothes were old and worn; His shoes were scuffed and the soles were loose, His coat was ragged and torn. I paused as I saw him standing there, His hair was thin and gray, And I wondered, “Should I ask this man To […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/a-stranger-the-reverence-poem/feed/ 0 2681 The Three Apprentices https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-three-apprentices/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-three-apprentices/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:47:09 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2679 Three apprentices were one day making swords for their Master, who had commanded them to do so.  The Master also had given specific instructions on how they were to be made. As the three apprentices worked they debated over what was really the proper procedure and the many secrets of making fine steel.  The first […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/optimist-creed/feed/ 1 2676 The Cynic https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-cynic/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-cynic/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:41:44 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2674 The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one.  He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light; mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into only two classes, openly bad and secretly […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-cynic/feed/ 1 2674 It Isn’t the Church – It’s You https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/it-isnt-the-church-its-you/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/it-isnt-the-church-its-you/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:39:13 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2672 If you want to have the kind of a church Like the kind of a church you like, You needn’t slip your clothes in a grip And start on a long, long hike. You’ll only find what you left behind, For there’s nothing really new. It’s a knock at yourself when you knock your church; […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/it-isnt-the-church-its-you/feed/ 0 2672 John Muir Quote https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/john-muir-quote/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/john-muir-quote/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:36:55 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2670 Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world, is timed to the occasion of some definite, foreordered end.  The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations.  Nature is one, and to me the greatest delight of observation and study is to discover new unities in this […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/john-muir-quote/feed/ 0 2670 Should Man Expect Much Less https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/should-man-expect-much-less/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/should-man-expect-much-less/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:34:43 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2666 The earth’s a gentle place When Spring first breathes anew, And lifts its smiling face To say that Winter’s through. The sun that paints the skies, Which Winter grays conceal, Bids nature to “Arise!” And breaks the ice-tong’s seal.  What song of hope is ours As heaven’s grace is shed On hilltops crowned with flowers […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/should-man-expect-much-less/feed/ 0 2666 A Package of Seeds https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/a-package-of-seeds/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/a-package-of-seeds/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:32:31 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2664 I paid a dime for a package of seeds And the clerk tossed them out with a flip. “We’ve got ‘em assorted for every man’s needs,” He said with a smile on his lip. “Pansies and poppies and asters and peas! Ten cents a package and pick as you please!”   Now seeds are just […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/a-package-of-seeds/feed/ 0 2664 Gossip https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/gossip/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/gossip/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:30:43 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2662 Gossip seems to be popular, but it is always a waste of time, generally inaccurate, and frequently vicious.  One who indulges in it exhibits low breeding and empty brain, devoid of substantial or constructive thinking.  Uncertainty, rumor and scandal are its vehicle.  It cuts and slashes, and leaves raw bone of distrust, suspicions and heartaches.  […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/gossip/feed/ 1 2662 Sorrow’s Work https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/sorrows-work/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/sorrows-work/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:22:57 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2658 There are things that come through the gates of tribulation. There are traits of character, which seem to find no other mode of entrance into life, such as gentleness, tact, sympathy, and strength. Though we may desire a life of tranquility and joy, it still remains true that few of us would choose for our […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/sorrows-work/feed/ 1 2658 The Veil https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-veil/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-veil/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:20:24 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2655 When in the beginning of the years, God mixed in man the raptures and the tears And scattered through his brain the starry stuff, He said, “Behold! Yet this is not enough, For I must test his spirit to make sure, That he can dare the vision and endure. “I will withdraw my face, Veil […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/the-veil/feed/ 0 2655 Things Unseen https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/things-unseen/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/things-unseen/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:15:33 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2653 Do you believe only in the things you can see? It is the thing not seen that is the most important — a house is a thing seen, but a home is a thing unseen; a brain can be seen, but a mind is unseen; you can see a mother’s face, but not the love […]

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]]> https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/things-unseen/feed/ 0 2653 Your Highest State https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/your-highest-state/ https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/your-highest-state/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2015 04:06:18 +0000 https://www.happypublishing.com/blog/?p=2649 Running like a gulf-stream through the sea of time, comes the affirmation that God has manifested Himself to man, and the best men have affirmed it most persistently.  Wherever this affirmation has made its way, the icebergs of scepticism have disappeared, the temperature of virtue has risen, and the sweet fruits of charity have ripened.  […]

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