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Books are My Favorite Mentors

From now on when you read a book, make the author your mentor and always read with your pen in your hand.

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From now on when you read a book, make the author your mentor and always read with your pen in your hand.

We must learn to read, but only to get our own minds in motion and start our thought processes.

"You are the same today that you will be five years from now except for two things-the people you meet and the books you read."

Growing brings growing pains but the laughs come too if humor is a part of your growing.

Patton almost always helped his listeners see with their hearts what he was saying.

Much of this was stored in his mind and heart through the book mentors he loved as a boy. Lincoln was a great thinker because he learned to read and laugh.

He challenges my everyday thinking with a warmth that has grown out of the struggles of his own heart.

Success for me is one word-thankfulness, learning to be thankful.

"Honey, if we don't start learning to be happy when we have nothing, we won't be happy when we have everything."

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