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Your life balances on your values

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"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount." -Clare Boothe Luce    Sometimes in life other people want us to do things that we feel go against what we value . That is a difficult choice because we want to fit in; we want to have fun, and we want others to like us. If we do not follow our beliefs and keep true to our values , we can lose touch with who we are and how we want to live our lives. Our lives balance on our values . Read my words and see my quotes  at http://susanmarieschulhof.blogspot.com or follow my page at                                              https://www.facebook.com/susanmarie.schulhof.7?ref=hl  

Strength is not power

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     "Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it, the more you have."                                                                -Andrew Young         I feel that moral power is following your own life code and showing those values to others. I want my children to value the things that I do like hard work, kindness and honesty to name a few.  I tried to teach them by my example and by the sharing of my thoughts and ideas about life with them as well.  As they get older, they are  influenced by friends, teachers, co-workers and their own thoughts and ideas, yet h opefully, they have been impacted by my values and morals . I never wanted my girls to be afraid of me so I did not spank or hit them to control their behavior because strength ...