John Spence Quotes

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• Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.
• When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.
• Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.
• When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.
• Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right.
• Be happy. Be yourself. If others don't like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn't about pleasing everybody.
• Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.
• If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you're fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat…
• No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.
• Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.
• Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.
• When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.
• Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the…
• If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.
• What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.
• You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with.
• People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them.
• When values are clear, decisions are easy.
• Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.
• Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.

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