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The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.


Sir Robert Baden-Powell

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The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.
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KELLY JONES As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
BEAR GRYLLS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Joy, living in the moment, plus lack of fear equals abundance. Live for the moment without fear and ...
THOMAS J. POWELL Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
ROBERT POWELL In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA Woman's love is writ in water, Woman's faith is traced in sand. - Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) ...
SIR ROBERT AYTOUN (AYTON) OF KINCALDIE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN Someone once said that there are always flowers for those who want to find flowers. I think that's t...
C. JOYBELL C. So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this...
ROY CLARK When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Life accumulates. The difference of accumulating days that we are proud of versus days for which we ...
THOMAS J. POWELL Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
DAN QUAYLE In the end, rational policy is always good.
PAUL KEATING He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.
IAN MCKELLEN Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA All the things that are in the past are in the past.
PABLO SANDOVAL What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo...
BETTY SMITH Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw...
J.D. SALINGER Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ...
IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
LAUREN KATE Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end....
DEYTH BANGER Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to to...
JERRY SPINELLI How can something feel so crucial in the moment and then seem completely trivial after the fact?
PAULA STOKES There's no sustenance in the past.
VIOLETTE LEDUC Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and r...
THICH NHAT HANH To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest.
“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma...
JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.”
“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.”
Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu...
J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima
JOHN GREEN But it's your life.
JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round.
JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ...
JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.
JOHN GREEN

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ADAM POWELL In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
ADAM POWELL Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
ADAM POWELL Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, th...
ADAM POWELL Either move or be moved.
COLIN POWELL Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field ...
COLIN POWELL 90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
COLIN POWELL Get mad, then get over it.
COLIN POWELL Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELL To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
JOHN POWELL Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of...
ANTHONY POWELL Self-love seems so often unrequited.
ANTHONY POWELL But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came int...
ANTHONY POWELL Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN POWELL Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process i...
ANTHONY POWELL Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take...
E.P. POWELL He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained fai...
ANTHONY POWELL Communication works for those who work at it.
JOHN POWELL By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world t...
JOHN POWELL Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
COLIN POWELL Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
COLIN POWELL Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
JOHN POWELL There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
COLIN POWELL Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
COLIN POWELL We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousan...
WILLIAM POWELL Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
COLIN POWELL Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
COLIN POWELL A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
COLIN POWELL Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that ou...
JONATHAN POWELL Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used...
LUCY POWELL In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade e...
LUCY POWELL The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, ...
COLIN POWELL