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THIS I BELIEVE

  Existential matters regarding purpose of life or such as: is there a God who judges our actions, what is considered good or bad, have troubled human minds since ancient times. A matter that personally bothers me and to which I am trying to find an answer in everyday situations, I am dealing with, is am I a good person.

               To earn the title “good person” does not take a single act of virtue or bravery.  It is a designation involving constant efforts and persistence in vindicating your personal beliefs. One should not be expecting a reward or return of a favor when conducting a good deed, otherwise you turn the act into a selfish deed.

Self criticism is one thing that regulates our set of values by making us wondering if we are taking the right decision when we are encountering an ethical or moral dilemma. Can you still be a nice person if you for example are forcing a person you love to do something he/she refuses to do even though you believe it is for his/her own good and you are taking the chance to look like you are the “ bad guy” in his/her eyes. Does it make you a bad person if you have your feet aching by the uncomfortable shoes, you’ve been wearing the whole day and you decide not to give your seat to a senior when riding a crowded bus. Are you a monster if with no malice aforethought, you spread a rumour about a friend or a colleague and by doing so you offend his/her reputation.

No person is entirely good or bad. You can’t always react in the way that others would expect you to. If you never say ‘no’ to people who are asking for a favour and might be taking an advatage of you, that makes you a naive person with no self respect. I admit that there are numerous cases when I’ve put my own interests before other people’s ones.  Even though I do not believe that makes me equal to Nietzsche’s Overman, who denies all christian values and is guided by his own ego.

 Albert Einstein said that “ a true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.” What he meant with this is that we will discover a higher value in being human when we learn to free ourselves from the demands and expectation of the ego. I do not claim that I’ve succeeded in attaining that liberation but I keep looking of ways to prove to myself that I am a worthy person,  to whom others can relay on.

One thing I know for sure- at the end of the day I can stand myself and when I go to sleep my conscious is free from guilt knowing that I have fulfilled my daily choirs. I know that I’ve been supportive to my girlfriend when listening for hours to her complaints about her boyfriend, instead of enjoying my own relationship, that I have helped my schoolmate to start a new job after loosing her previous one, neglecting the fact that we haven’t been in such good terms lately. I believe that these actions, no matter how insignificant they are, prove that I am not such a bad person after all. I will let other people decide for me, because their opinion regarding this matter is the only one that counts.

 

Willpower and indomitable human spirit ...

Will there be at least one person who would not want to be happy? Could all his life not once not ponder the question: Am I happy? And others? My close friends?  Do they have enough willpower and unforgiving spirit to seek and assert find happiness. In life there is nothing that is not related to the strength of our faith - from our health to our attitude toward mastery of space.  Everything depends on our will, tenacity and perseverance. Can a person with no willpower to diet, exercise, read and absorb new in life? People always set targets. There are close, immediate objectives and large, distant. Whole-ideals. To their achievement targets our overall business. And, of course, will power. Because who wants to achieve their goals, be aware that one hit the tree falls. It takes persistence and perseverance. They should fill the entire adult life of man. It is important to know, however, it is going guy and in what ways you intend going and going. Naturally it is today one can not be satisfied with yesterday. The new day is a new measure. Measure of joy, energy, rigor and responsibility to themselves and others. It contains impulse stands are unforgiving human spirit to achieve new successes. Mark Twain wrote that when you complete your work more than one piece, only then should understand how to do it "right." The same can be said of the architect who sees his intention made​​. Wake striving for new achievements demonstrates the strong will and desire a man does not stop in its development. Hence success. The best of human joys to taste after testing the willpower, resilience and perseverance. Everything in man - strong hands and a thin bright mind, a good heart is hot but created by nature, so that the man with the strength of will and indomitable human spirit to create beautiful, to achieve and to enjoy. Sense of perseverance, intolerance and perseverance is a must. Freedom of will is the ability of people to make personal decisions about what is to be done and actually doing it. And this man displays willpower as courage, determination, initiative and self-control. A must have not only the will to fight for good, for good, and to oppose vulgar, ugly and violent. Changes in a person's life, even quite deep, occurred in the space of a very short period of time. When you least expect it, life presents us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change. That's why I split, but armed with willpower, patience and defiance, with bitterness and nobility. Continue ahead to prove to myself that the human spirit is indomitable.

What is love?

 Love itself is universal experience. Yet, every individual occurrence. while perhaps bound by a common thread - seems absolutely unique. Love is what love is! To everyone it expresses itself differently.
Love is like a continually shattering mirror that always leaves behind images etched in people’s hearts; but it will itself remain a mystery forever....
Many people give themselves over to this mystery, but while love can produce the most tender and delicate feelings in anyone’s soul, it alone a window in the hearts of a very few
Love is a dark and intangible feeling that often exposes it's targets to danger, pain and suffering. Love is the pillar for friendship, yet it works to weaken us, and drives us to depend on and be sensitive of others. Love is built on a foundation of trust, a thin barrier between formality and chaos. Which leaves room for a selected group of people to abuse the trust and take advantage. Some might argue that love brings humans together and promote cooperation, yet cooperation and unionism are two very short fangled areas, as they will soon be contaminated with betrayal and lies. Love is a dangerous component of life and it works to deceive and manipulate other people's trusts. Yet one might argue that love is what makes us human. Love is what brings together family, friends and happy memories. Nonetheless, who can judge that their love towards one is real? Maybe they are just taking advantage. Nobody knows. The trust between two people can be broken at a snap of a finger. An overheard conversation, a misread text message or simply the element of doubt can shatter the component of trust between two people. There is nobody you can trust but yourself. Why love others? Maybe love can bring us together, but it is unstable and dangerous. Love is like a rose. The beauty of the flower is indescribable with words, but the stems are filled with vile thorns. Like a rose, it looks attractive and stunning, but as you look closer and examine it thoroughly, you will discover that it comes with pricks of jealousy, hatred, and mistrust and it will weaken you.

Legend

Hyas-Tyee-Skookum-Tum-Tum (Good Chieftains) of the Kootenai Tribe had a lovely daughter, Hya-Pam (Fearless Running Water) who loved a kootenay Brave, Hasht-Eel-Ame-Hoom (Shining Eagle). Hostile tribes lived east of here, governed by an ancient chief, Pu-Pu-Mox-Mox (Yellow Serpent). He threatened war on the Kootenays if he was not allowed to wed Hya-Pam. To avert war, Hya-Pam's father consented to the marriage.

The Indian Maid and her Brave were dismayed and vowed their eternal love. Binding themselves together with the 'marriage chain of rushes' they leaped into the lake from Suicide Cliff. As the lovers were never found, folklore tells us that on a moonlit night, when the wind is still, you may see their shadowy silhouettes as they drift across the lake in a phantom canoe. As the lake ice floes melt and grind together in springtime, weird, mournful and haunting sounds are heard, are these the cries of the Indian lovers as they seek release from the Lake of the Spirits?

 

History

Platted in 1907 by engineers from Pennsylvania, the town was opened to real estate investors in 1910 when most streets, business buildings, utilities and first houses were completed. Railway travelers from Spokane were discharged at the big brick depot located at the foot of the lake hill. Ladies in long dresses, complete with leg o'mutton sleeves and high necks, adorned in enormous picture hats -- escorted by men in suits, high collars and flat straw skimmers -- wended their way past the hill park and up Maine Street to the town.

Homes were built on the lakeshore and Spirit Lake became a resort town. A high bridge was built over the channel that connects the lake with the area that later became the millpond. A dirt and rock fill has replaced that bridge. The Chautauqua Players often performed on a plot of land near the west end of the bridge.

Loggers took timber tools to the head of the lake, near the foot of Mt. Spokane, built log flumes and floated the logs down to the lake where they were towed to the sawmill near the City of Spirit Lake. Frederick A. Blackwell and his son, R.F. Blackwell, formed the Panhandle Lumber and the Blackwell Lumber Companies. A large sawmill was built and timber from the vast, and previously untouched, forest east of Mt. Spokane, and from Spirit Valley, was sawed into lumber and transported by railcars on the Idaho & Washington Northern Railroad.

The railroad through this area was built mostly by hand with very little machinery available. The roadbed was of such excellence that the first passenger trains rocked along at 35 miles per hour. Earlier railroads curved around stumps but I&WN was noted for its unusual amount of tangent track.

The sawmill produced 125,000 feet of lumber per 10-hour day. The main source of income for the 2,000 or so residents living here ended in 1939 when a fire took a portion of the lumber company property and the remainder was moved out of the area. The Panhandle Lumber Company office building is now the Fireside Lodge near the millpond.

Spirit Lake was an attraction that brought summer excursion trains for vacationers in the early years. This traffic was gradually lost to the auto and regular passenger service on the I&WN ended in January 1937.

The shores of Spirit Lake served as a site for summer homes for several years. Later, the summer people became year-round residents. City residents are now listed at approximately 900 in 1989, but lake residents boost the population to nearly triple that number. New construction is progressing. In the mid 70s a move was made to create an Old West appearance to the businesses on Maine Street. The city still serves as a bedroom community for workers employed elsewhere and still retains its small-town atmosphere.

HAPPINESS ...

Everyone starts his day with hope. Hope that this day will be better than the previous one.
Hope that one by one the difficulties will disappear. And every day, each of us struggling, trying to find their happiness. ...and it never seemed enough. The question is when a person is truly happy?I see people around me set goals. In a certain period, until they achieve, they are all about them.
All they think is the most important thing, and when it will reach a break and enjoy success for a long time. It achieved very quickly forget how valuable it is to them and begin to fight the next crazy "happiest" moment in his life.
So to infinity. Unconscious greed leads them in search of the greatest happiness and the things around them - family, friends, love is just a fact and part of everyday life.
More and more things are happening around us, we are at least share with loved ones. There are very few people who can go to any of his family to sit on him and say "I have a problem, like a man and do not know what to do." This is very unfortunate. We trust people who feel very close, often people who have a vast experience. We go to them, we say what we worry and expect to tell us how to live in a particular recipe. And they do. Each thinks the other knows how to be happy, but realizes that he's not finished and after instruction goes to a third person so that he eventually told him his recipe for living.  What a pity that only others know how we should live.The only thing one can do when someone says things are very personal to ask him questions which he himself would not have asked you because it suits him to answer and those who did not expect it would be asked.Others can not tell us how to live, they can only help us to answer the questions that we ask ourselves and ask ourselves these questions would not you set yourself.
Therefore happiness is very relative. If at times when you're tired listed all the things which you live. If for a moment you think about how much worse it could be, you will realize how much your lucky.When you're sad enough to count those things that give meaning to your life and not buy pari.Togava will feel how much happiness is around you. Because happiness is not what you have, but the fact that they enjoy ...

Attitude is Altitude

  My name is Nick Vujicic and I am thankful to have been born 30 years ago with no arms and no legs. I won’t pretend my life is easy, but through the love of my parents, loved ones, and faith in God, I have overcome my adversity and my life is now filled with joy and purpose. I reside now in California with my wife, Kanae, and we both love seeing people’s lives changed for the better or touched in some way. It is my hope that your life is positively impacted by my story.

I was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and it was a shock to my parents that I arrived without limbs. There is no medical reason for it. My parents did their very best to keep me in the mainstream school system and give me every opportunity to live to the fullest. I was blessed to have a brother and a sister as my best friends too.

We later moved to Brisbane, Australia, where I lived for 14 years before I made the move to California. At age eight, I could not see a bright future ahead and I became depressed. When I was ten years old, I decided to end my life by drowning myself in a bathtub. After a couple attempts, I realized that I did not want to leave my loved ones with the burden and guilt that would result from my suicide. I could not do that to them.

I wasn’t depressed my entire childhood, but I did have ups and downs. At age thirteen I hurt my foot, which I use for many things like typing, writing and swimming. That injury made me realize that I need to be more thankful for my abilities and less focused on my disabilities.

When I was fifteen years old, I sealed my faith in God and from there it has been an amazing journey.

A janitor at my high school inspired me to start speaking about my faith and overcoming adversity when I was seventeen. I spoke only a dozen times to very small groups over the next two years. Then I found myself in front of three hundred sophomore (grade 10) students and I was very nervous. My knees were shaking. Within the first three minutes of my talk, half the girls were crying, and most of the boys were struggling to hold their emotions together. One girl in particular was sobbing very hard. We all looked at her and she put her hand up. She said, “I am so sorry to interrupt, but can I come up and hug you?”

She came hugged me in front of everyone, and whispered in my ear, “Thank you, thank you, thank you. No one has ever told me that they loved me and that I am beautiful the way I am.”

Her gratitude inspired me to go across 44 countries and speak 2,000 times. I realized that we all need love and hope and that I was in a unique position to share that with people around the world.

While majoring in both accounting and financial planning at a university, I also worked on developing my abilities as a speaker. I worked with a speaking coach who helped to cultivate me as a presenter. He especially worked on my body language as my hands flew everywhere at first!

I spoke on motivational topics after creating the company, attitude is altitude. I also launched a non-profit ministry, life without limbs, to spread my messages of faith and hope around the world.

Whoever you are, wherever you’re from and whatever you are dealing with, I hope that you will be inspired by my story and my message. Please enjoy browsing around this website where I share with you my thoughts on faith, hope and love to encourage you and to help you overcome your own challenges.

Dream big my friend and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you too
will overcome.

Man ...

 Man is part of the living world of nature, lord of life on the planet and has the power to subjugate all of their interests! His attitude to nature is the measure of its ecological culture.
As one person treats family and home, so should be true with the surrounding flora and fauna. A small percentage are people who keep nature as most - their expensive.Nowadays more and more talk that rapidly degrades nature and natural resources are exhausted.There are those of the so-called "ecological catastrophe" and scientists develop pessimistic predictions about the future of the planet.Enabling - further development of man as a species, we have not only targeted the development of the biosphere, satisfying the needs of an evolving society, but the perfection of adaptation to the changing conditions of life on the planet.We humans are constantly striving to create new things, but we do not think that some of them can be very dangerous for the development of living organisms. This continuous pollution and destruction of nature on our side, we had been talking to make life uncomfortable.Many local businesses can cause different consequences affecting environmental conditions and cause reorganization of the biosphere.Thanks man, can disappear different protected plants and animals, so there organizyatsii and institutions that monitor such cases. It is possible to get away islands and deserts to become - big. To diseases and drought occur because of contaminated water and soil.I think if you really like things happen, the conditions for the development of organisms will be limited and the map will also undergo changes, not to mention that even the weather will change.Chemical industry, the use of coal in energy, nuclear power plants are among otopasnite sources of environmental instability.
It is possible to start happening more often the question: "Can the man to beat nature? "And my answer is that maybe nature will win.Above - these crisis situations, have already begun processes known to mankind. We can not stop natural disasters, which were formed to some human intervention, but let's think ...However, we are here and we can make sure that nature watching us with shining eyes with joy when he sees a new beginning and attitude on our part to be able to balance up man - nature and not fighting pointless war.
Let's start from scratch for a better life for one more - a better future!