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Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
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Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
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Flavia Weedn
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If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.
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Germany Kent
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Booker T. Washington
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I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.
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Dean Karnazes (Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner)
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There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to see what's good for him. But in the letting go........is found freedom. In the letting go........ is found the flight!
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You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?
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Jo Ryan (Go For It! Inspiring Words of Determination)
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Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?
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Onyi Anyado
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Oneβs options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. Theyβre part of the same journey β our story.
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Lori R. Lopez (Dance of the Chupacabras)
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5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:
1 Post content that add value
2 Spread positivity
3 Create steady stream of info
4 Make an impact
5 Be yourself
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Germany Kent
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Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted.
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Germany Kent (You Are What You Tweet: Harness the Power of Twitter to Create a Happier, Healthier Life)
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When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.
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Onyi Anyado
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Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?)
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You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.
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Greta Thunberg (No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference)
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What the average call excellent, the excellent call average.
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Onyi Anyado
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Yes, content is king but excellence is his queen. ~ Onyi Anyado.
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Onyi Anyado
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If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform.
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Germany Kent
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You can't make footprints in the sand of time if you're sitting on your butt, and who wants to make buttprints in the sand of time?
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Bob Moawad
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One night I dreamed a dream.
I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to me and one to my Lord.
When the last scene of my life shot before me I looked back at the footprints in the sand. There was only one set of footprints. I realized that this was at the lowest and saddest times of my life. This always bothered me and I questioned the Lord about my dilemma.
"Lord, You told me when I decided to follow You, You would walk and talk with me all the way. But I'm aware that during the most troublesome times of my life there is only one set of footprints. I just don't understand why, when I need You most, You leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you, never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you.
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Margaret Fishback Powers
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Out of frustrations, out of desperation, out of disappointments, out of mediocrity. out of idleness,out of limited insight, out of difficulties, out of insatiability, out of poverty, out of pain and the vicissitudes of life , so many people shall come to a conclusion that nothing is worth living for; not even what is solemn and sacred but, some shall always turn the woes of life into great land marks and indelible footprints worth emulating
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?)
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The good news is that you are alive. The essential thing is that you must live
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?)
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He was footprints in the snow.
Not all loves are meant to last.
Some are meant to grace you briefly,
before fading,
somehow leaving the impression
that the world is just a little bit better
because you had been touched by
something so beautiful it was impossible
to grasp.
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Jacqueline Simon Gunn
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Though my eyes cannot see beyond what I can see, I can see beyond what I cannot see
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?)
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Footsteps of success,
Β Β are trailed by fading footprints,
Β Β Β Β of failures past..
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J. Benson (Haiku to Live By: Life affirming messages, to hearten your day)
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You should holistically build yourself to be the best you. The evidence of your glorious life should be an inspiration to many . You create your world yourself in your own positive way. You are stronger than ever and bolder than you think. Brave the odds and initiate new imprints for all to aspire and follow your footprints.
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Heβll never be able to hide his feelings for you when he sees you. Thatβs the thing with enduring love. It can stay buried, you can deny it, but once you are near that person, those feelings pull you together like a magnetic bond.
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Jacqueline Simon Gunn (Before the Footprints Fade (Hudson River #2))
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Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solenm main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Voices of the Night)
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Walk in truth. Leave footprints of honesty.
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A.D. Posey
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Don't forget to leave your handprints on the ones you love and your footprints around the neighborhood.
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Lisa C. Miller (Godly Inspirations For The Troubled Soul)
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...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few.
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Greta Thunberg (No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference)
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The real power belongs to the people.
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Greta Thunberg (No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference)
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To live in the moment... is the only
footprint one must follow..
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Oglala Lakota- Hinhan Wakangli
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I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit---we will kill it.
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Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero)
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You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until itβs too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected the hardest are already suffering the consequences. But their voices are not heard.
Is my microphone on? Can you hear me?
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Greta Thunberg (No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference)
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Ignore ignorance. The ultimate way to deal with men with ignorant mentality who are ignorance of your purpose on earth is to ignore their ignorance; capitalize on their ignorance and let them appreciate your purpose in awe and admiration
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?)
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Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the
best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing
something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever
get there.
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Laurie David
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One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.β It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (Pearls Of Eternity)
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Great men do not experience small challenges. They face great challenge but that is what makes them great. That is what give them great story. That is what inspires them to live and leave distinctive footprints on minds. Though they face great challenges, they gather great momentum and strength to fight such challenges with fortitude and tenacity to the satisfaction of their inner man. Great men, though they face great challenges, they always come out of the challenges as great men with great stories. They live and leave distinctive footprints of life on minds
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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My journey in life, my footprints in the world.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful
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the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity
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humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice
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In life, we leave a legacy to our children, we leave our footprints wherever we travel, and we leave our fingerprints on every heart we touch.
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Pat Patrick (Awakening the Dream Within)
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Friends, like pianos, need frequent tuning. You are in the right key when you sing the praises of others. βHEATHER MACGREGOR
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Margaret Fishback Powers (The Footprints Book Of Daily Inspirations)
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don't just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry
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When you walk in distinction, you donβt compete with anyone but competition wants to compete with you.
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Onyi Anyado
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There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice and there is always a choice to choose. If only you would think of the summary of your life tomorrow today, you would yearn to live and leave a distinctive footprint and you would never stand for anything at all
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Leaders donβt hide good news from their followers. As long as they discover knowledge, they share knowledge. They leave part of them with people they meet; hence they are hardly missed when they are gone.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Leaders' Ladder)
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For over millions of years, social work and philanthropy have been practiced on a large scale. If we talk about India, then in this developing country this number is on a terrific hike. Social workers and philanthropists like Aman Mehndiratta are leaving their footprints on this path which is surely inspiring for all of us in every manner.
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Aman Mehndiratta (Aman Mehndiratta)
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the target of the masses is that which stands out of the masses
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?)
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no matter how useful the electricity may be, it needs connections to function
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Find the right paths for your journey.
Travel along these paths to your final destination.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.
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Onyi Anyado
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don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life
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Live now, enjoy Life now! Love now, for this now is the precious moment that is creating our lives. Each now is unique -- it wonβt come back in time. In it we leave a footprint, and within that impression are the actions we leave behind. Each step we take, we leave a mark. The path is created by the steps a person takes while walking it.
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Jacqueline Ripstein (The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness (collectors Edition))
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So we canβt save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change. And it has to start today. So everyone out there: it is now time for civil disobedience. It is time to rebel.
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Greta Thunberg (No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference)
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Footprints of Life
We walk daily and everywhere we go and everyone we meet we leave behind footprints of our existence.
Be the kind gentle and loving person that you are and your footprints will always be cherished and remembered.
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We all leave something behind us. A bird in flight will lose a snow-white feather, and flowers in the hedgerows will drop their petals. And people? We leave memories. Footprints in the dust and fingerprints on everything we've touched, warmth in every hand we've held. We become stories that are spoken of, for always. And in this way, we carry on.
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Susan E. Fletcher
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Goddess Rising
This is for the women
Who have walked with hidden shame
Stirring like all is well
Though weighted down in pain.
This is for her Inner Child
Who longs to forget
Her innocence stolen
Body, soul and spirit rent
into pieces- fragments-broken-bent
This is for the Maiden
Longing to belong
-To another -
In hopes
to make right the darkened wrongs
Not realizing-blinded by oozing wounds
Her own innate delicious power
Thick within her womb
This is for the Mother
Breaking eons of fettered chains
For the children she has birthed
Through blood and breaths of change
She calls them Redemption
Regardless of their names
This is for the Crone
Who called her shattered pieces Home
To herself-
To all her luminous bodies
Where she never dared to feel
Making strong her bones
Crushing~ oppressors
With the swaying of her hips
Her hands soaring like doves
Honey dripping from her lips
This is for the Wild Woman
Who traversed the Underground
Leaving her footprints
While taming the Hellhounds.
Like a seed breaking fallow ground
Emerging fruitful garden
No longer bound
By the nightmare of the past
Awakened from the Dream-
Of Separation
SHE. IS.- merging realms between.
This is for the woman, for the Goddess
For me
For you
Rising from our ashes
Making ALL things new~
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Mishi McCoy
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I wanted a national park kind of love. Something that felt different and special compared to everything else surrounding it. Some thing that was fun and inspiring. Some thing that felt like it was worth guarding and protecting forever.
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Conor Knighton (Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park)
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Real mentoring is less of neither the candid smile nor the amicable friendship that exists between the mentor and the mentee and much more of the impacts. The indelible great footprints the mentor live on the mind of the mentee in a life changing way. How the mentor changes the mentee from ordinariness to extra-ordinariness; the seed of purposefulness that is planted and nurtured for great fruits; the payer from afar from the mentor to the mentee; and the great inspirations the mentee takes from the mentor to dare unrelentingly to face the storms regardless of how arduous the errand may be with or without the presence of the mentor.
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things.
Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.
Where celebrities, film and pop stars who have stood up against all injustices will not stand up for our environment and for climate justice because that would inflict on their right to fly around the world visiting their favourite restaurants, beaches and yoga retreats.
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Greta Thunberg (No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference)
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You wake up for a reason, you eat for a reason, you dress for a reason and you sleep for a reason. All we do run on the pivot of reasons. For what reasons do you fear? For what reasons do you think? For what reasons do you talk? For what reasons do you open that door each day? For what reasons do you love? For what reasons do you hate? Until we get the reasonable reasons to reason, we shall always ponder over the reasons why we reasoned or we could not reason.
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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We have not taken to the streets for you to take selfies with us, and tell us that you really admire what we do.
We children are doing this to wake the adults up. We children are doing this for you to put your differences aside and start acting as you would in a crisis. We children are doing this because we want our hopes and dreams back.
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Greta Thunberg (No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference)
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You seem irrelevant because your relevance seems latent. You seem irrelevant because your relevance is not speaking the language they understand. You seem irrelevant because you have not yet proven the evidence that is relevant. You seem irrelevant because you are still holding your relevance. People are more interested in works that work than mere works. People are much more interested in the relevance of actions than mere actions. People are more interested in your whole self in action and the relevance of the action than your mere action. There is something to be done. There is a footprint to leave. We must do something relevant. A proven relevance is relevant for our relevance in all matters of life.
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Leaders donβt leave people empty handed. They give them part of themselves through knowledge sharing and influence creation.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Leaders' Ladder)
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Every oneβs footprint is a landmark in the world history
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Every path that my foot has treaded was divinely ordered.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The unique fingerprint of every individual defines our unique purpose and mission on earth.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not just live and leave one great thing!
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Great moments are full of naked vulnerability, words merely reflect a primal or instinctual footprints that leaves trails of dust for those brave enough to follow
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Val Uchendu
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Show the world you are not here to just pass through. Leave great footprints wherever you pass and be remembered for the change you initiated.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Become a Better You)
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In the history of the world, we have left our footprints by our unique stories.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Change is the mother of growth and maturity.
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?)
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words make some unique ; words destroy some
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Most times, the best thing people deserve from us is our silence.speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?)
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Until you, I never realized that people could change us. That we could find more within ourselves, that we always have more to give when we find people we want to give things to.
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Jacqueline Simon Gunn (Before the Footprints Fade (Hudson River #2))
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Those of us who are still children canβt change what you do now once weβre old enough to do something about it.
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Greta Thunberg (No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference)
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You are leaving footprints as you walk, make it a point that they are worth following on.
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Pam86zn
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Begin your new story on a blank page, and like lonely footprints along a snowy path, the rest will follow...
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Nanette L. Avery
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The times when you have
seen only one set of footprints,
is when I carried you.
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Mary Stevenson (The Illustrated Footprints in the Sand)
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we may always find a great and a beautiful city in the world for ourselves but the most precious and finest city to live in is our mind; a positive mind and a per second positive thoughts
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah (Distinctive Footprints Of Life: where are you heading towards?)
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Don't just leave your footprints in the sand only to be washed away as the ocean waves come crashing to the shore. You want to impact the lives of others in such a way that you'll be remembered forever. You want to instill values and wisdom in the hearts and minds of others that will never be forgotten. So they may teach their children to carry on from generation to generation.
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Amaka Imani Nkosazana (Sweet Destiny)
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It is a solemn duty to change lives positively.It is a noble honor to inspire and be there for others.It is an irresistible necessity to have empathy; to understand the situations and the reasons for the actions of others. Real mentoring is less of neither the candid smile nor the amicable friendship that exists between the mentor and the mentee and much more of the impacts. The indelible great footprints the mentor lives on the mind of the mentee in a life changing way. How the mentor changes the mentee from ordinariness to extra-ordinariness; the seed of purposefulness that is planted and nurtured for great fruits; the prayer from afar from the mentor to the mentee; and the great inspirations the mentee takes from the mentor to dare unrelentingly to face the storms regardless of how arduous the errand may be with or without the presence of the mentor
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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So we canβt save the world by playing by the rules.
Because the rules have to be changed.
Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.
So everyone out there: it is now time for civil disobedience.
It is time to rebel.
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Greta Thunberg (No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference)
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What goes into our mind matters a lot to the success or failure of our lives. For so many people, what they heard triggered their steps that led them into discarding the real value of their lives. For so many people, what they heard became a spring board that shot the real value of their lives to a glorious height and for so many people, what they heard made them to choose never to do anything in life. Until you lose your hearing, you shall always hear. But, what you hear and what you deduce from what you hear must not just be distinctive but sound enough to make you take a distinctive step which will produce a distinctive footprint. If you fail to mind the seed of what goes into your mind today, you shall surely mind the fruits of what went into your mind yesterday tomorrow. Mind your mind!
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Some teachers only teach us and go but some teachers teach us and they leave indelible footprints which continue to teach us forever! Great teachers live and leave distinctive footprints. Great teachers, though they go, their footprints forever live in our minds and inspire the body and the soul in a distinctive way !
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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They that see how they can rise beyond the horizon never exert their total energy on things that are breathtaking on the ground! They think, they act and they see what we all see differently. Though their bodies live on the ground, their mind, spirit and energy journey purposefully towards higher heights each moment of time. They understand doing the small things that can result in great things and they reason from the ignorance, absurdity and the heralds of ordinariness of the masses. They know and understand the real reasons why they must dare, relax and ponder in patience, and also take steps with fortitude and tenacity for a noble accomplishment so as to leave great, distinctive and indelible footprints regardless of the hurdles they might face.
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing oβer lifeβs solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Every soul you encounter along your way ..has known agony ..secretly in deeps....every heart you meet along your way ...has known suffering ..secretly in silence....some are broken so freshly...feeling the raw wounds .... every time they revisit the old memory lanes... while some are feeling the achiest of aches...from the age old losses....for grief has left its footprints along the way....
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Jayita Bhattacharjee
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Definitely, some will doubt you, but donβt doubt yourself. Surely, some will hate your mission, but donβt hate your vision. Truly, some will envy your vision, but donβt change your vision. Surely, some will mock at your direction, but donβt neglect your focus. Surely, you shall meet obstacles, but learn to overcome all obstacles with wit. Frankly, some will say what they want to you, but say what is inspiring to yourself. Obviously, you shall meet fear, but learn to shake your fears. In fact, there shall be moment of drought, but learn to go with tenacity and an indomitable staying power. You may meet the rocks, but climb the rocks with fortitude to the apex, and you shall feel the fresh air! Truly, you shall hear so many things, but know what to listen to. Surely, some will misunderstand you, but learn to understand yourself. You may definitely have so many things to do, but mind what is more important and weightier. There is no great journey without issues, but learn to overcome all issues, and get to the end of the journey with distinctive footprints and a good sense of fulfillment. You were born for a purpose! Live it; achieve it! God is waiting for you at the finishing line; get there with a pleasant story for a glory!
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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THE ANTHEM OF HOPE
Tiny footprints in mud, metal scraps among thistles
Child who ambles barefooted through humanityβs war
An Elderflower in mud, landmines hidden in bristles
Blood clings to your feet, your wee hands stiff and sore
You who walk among trenches, midst our filth and our gore
Box of crayons in hand, your tears tumble like crystals
Gentle, scared little boy, at the heel of Hope Valley,
The grassy heel of Hope Valley.
And the bombs fall-fall-fall
Down the slopes of Hope Valley
Bayonets cut-cut-cut
Through the ranks of Hope Valley
Napalm clouds burn-burn-burn
All who fight in Hope Valley,
All who fall in Hope Valley.
Bullets fly past your shoulder, fireflies light the sky
Child who digs through the trenches for his long sleeping father
You plant a kiss on his forehead, and you whisper goodbye
Vain corpses, brave soldiers, offered as cannon fodder
Nothing is left but a wall; near its pallor you gather
Crayon ready, you draw: the memory of a lie
Kind, sad little boy, sketching your dream of Hope Valley
Your little dream of Hope Valley.
Missiles fly-fly-fly
Over the fields of Hope Valley
Carabines shoot-shoot-shoot
The brave souls of Hope Valley
And the tanks shell-shell-shell
Those who toiled for Hope Valley,
Those who died for Hope Valley.
In the light of gunfire, the little child draws the valley
Every trench is a creek; every bloodstain a flower
No battlefield, but a garden with large fields ripe with barley
Ideations of peace in his dark, final hour
And so the child drew his future, on the wall of that tower
Memories of times past; your tiny village lush alley
Great, brave little boy, the future hope of Hope Valley
The only hope of Hope Valley.
And the grass grows-grows-grows
On the knolls of Hope Valley
Daffodils bloom-bloom-bloom
Across the hills of Hope Valley
The midday sun shines-shines-shines
On the folk of Hope Valley
On the dead of Hope Valley
From his Aerodyne fleet
The soldier faces the carnage
Uttering words to the fallen
He commends their great courage
Across a wrecked, tower wall
A childβs hand limns the valley
And this drawing speaks volumes
Words of hope, not of bally
He wipes his tears and marvels
The miracle of Hope Valley
The only miracle of Hope Valley
And the grass grows-grows-grows
Midst all the dead of Hope Valley
Daffodils bloom-bloom-bloom
For all the dead of Hope Valley
The evening sun sets-sets-sets
On the miracle of Hope Valley
The only miracle of Hope Valley
(lyrics to "the Anthem of Hope", a fictional song featured in Louise Blackwick's Neon Science-Fiction novel "5 Stars".
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Louise Blackwick (5 Stars)
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One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there was one only.
This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints, so I said to the Lord,
βYou promised me Lord,
that if I followed you, you would walk with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of footprints in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?β
The Lord replied, βThe years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.
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Mary Stevenson (The Illustrated Footprints in the Sand)
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Dear Shift in the storm,
This is abnormal, but I love how the clouds are shifting in my life. I noticed the lens flare as the clouds drift away. I used to think I was better off because the storm was the storyteller of my life, and I thought it was here to stay.
Now that the clouds are finally drifting away, the scattered light is awaking my soul to a brighter day. I use to be so lost, but Nurse Hope's kindness is helping me find my way. Her actions have made me realize that love doesnβt cost a thing and that I want more out of life. I know that it is possible.
Dear shift in the storm, would you take my complex memories with you? Therefore, curiosity will not enable me to continue to think of the βwhat-ifs.' If you can, would you do me the honor of shrinking my and Kace's memories? Could you void them as they shrink in the fading light? Thereβs no need to expand what we are trying to do away with.
May you melt our frozen tears? If not, could you please make them invincible in the light? Could Kace and I become intangible as our old life disappears in the shift of the storm? Weβve had more than our share of fragmentsβand we are ready to be set free. For far too long, weβve reached our breaking point.
Dear shift in the storm, could you wash away our fears and wash us wholeβas we step into our new life? Let there be no more secrets and lies, for Kace and I have endured enough. We are ready to shed our skin, and we are most certainly ready for our new beginning. I feel the change because the tear stains on my face have left their footprints for me to walk into a new world. During this shift, I am going to be still because I know when the storm is over that I am going to be alright.
I no longer have to be selfish for all the wrong reasons.
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Charlena E. Jackson (Pinwheels and Dandelions)
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All the women, white or black or brown, who woke up like this, who came before me in this town. Think of them. Heads up, eyes on the target. Running. Full speed. Gravity be damned. Toward that thick layer of glass that is the ceiling. Running, full speed, and crashing. Crashing into that ceiling and falling back. Crashing into it and falling back. Into it and falling back. Woman after woman. Each one running and each one crashing. And everyone falling. How many women had to hit that glass before the first crack appeared? How many cuts did they get, how many bruises? How hard did they have to hit the ceiling? How many women had to hit that glass to ripple it, to send out a thousand hairline fractures? How many women had to hit that glass before the pressure of their effort caused it to evolve from a thick pane of glass into just a thin sheet of splintered ice? So that when it was my turn to run, it didnβt even look like a ceiling anymore. I mean, the wind was already whistling throughβI could always feel it on my face. And there were all these holes giving me a perfect view to the other side. I didnβt even notice the gravity, I think it had already worn itself away. So I didnβt have to fight as hard. I had time to study the cracks. I had time to decide where the air felt the rarest, where the wind was the coolest, where the view was the most soaring. I picked my spot in the glass and I called it my target. And I ran. And when I finally hit that ceiling, it just exploded into dust. Like that. My sisters who went before me had already handled it. No cuts. No bruises. No bleeding. Making it through the glass ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other womanβs footprints. I just hit at exactly the right time in exactly the right spot. So Iβm breaking my familyβs rule today. This is a trophy for participation. And I am beyond honored and proud to receive it. Because this? Was a group effort. Thank you to all the women in this room. Thank you to all the women who never made it into this room. And thank you to all the women who will hopefully fill a room one hundred times this size when we are all gone. You are all an inspiration.
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Shonda Rhimes (Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person)
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The sky is not the limit when there are footprints on the moon
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H.D. Ryan
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Footprints
we all leave footprints of our existence every place we go and with every person, we come into contact with.
the essence of life is to leave loving, caring memories of us by the footprints we leave behind on our journey thru life
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Charles Elwood Hudson
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Almost since the beginning of recorded history, humans have seen themselves as separate from the natural world. We divide the planet into two categories: things influenced by human action and things that are untouched. The distinction is false. On a global scale we can see that the constant progress of industry has had a dramatic effect on the climate. The humanizing influence of our carbon footprint affects everything. The year that Iβm writing this, 2016, is set to be the hottest ever recorded, expected to top the 10 record-breaking years before it. The scale of the problem indicates that humanity and the environment are intrinsically linked. But does that mean weβre making the world more human? Or does it mean that humanity has been part of nature all along? The tiny muscles around your arteries have one unambiguous answer to that question. Despite everything that we try to do to separate ourselves from the world around us, humans are still indisputably part of nature. As byproducts of evolution, the skyscrapers, plastics, and automobiles we manufacture are no less βnaturalβ than a termite mound, a honeycomb, or a beaver dam. Yes, the actions that humans make may be significantly more destructive or ambitious or awe-inspiring or futile, but they are all part of a greater system of causes and effects. We are still animals. Just very smart ones.
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Scott Carney (What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength)