Daily Affirmation - Jun 17, 2026
I can begin again at any moment of the day.
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I can begin again at any moment of the day.
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
Kings and lords and christians raised them Since they stand for higher powers Yet few of them would stand, I’m certain, If women ruled this world of ours.
He was so tired. When he jolted himself away for a third time, he was face to face with the headlights….
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of…
I am still learning, and that is exactly where I should be.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
I am a noodle, though i'm not very stringy. I am also a block, just don't knock me off. What am I.
Take the last line of a poem and make it the first line in a new poem.
Tyger, tyger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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I am strong. I am wise. I will be okay.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinke…
Kings and queens may cling to power and the jester’s got his call, But, as you may all discover, the common one outranks them all.
Write a sequel to a book you have read.
I Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend wit…
Walk a dog, yours or a friend's. Borrowed joy still counts.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The one who makes it, sells it. The one who buys it, never uses it. The one that uses it never knows that he’s using it. What is it?
If you had to escort a visitor from outer space for a 30-minute tour of your community, where would you begin and end?
Interiority or internalization components fall in a specific order as follows: 1.) Feeling and emotion 2.) Then thought 3.) Then action 4.) Then dialogue.
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream: Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in…
My presence matters to people I may never realize.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Were you ever given a responsibility that you couldn't handle?
"We tune in to watch people be punished, and we enjoy seeing characters pushed to their absolute limits and beyond. We seem to like our main characters frustrated, beaten down, devastated,…
She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which He…
One bad moment does not make a bad day.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Every night I’m told what to do, and each morning I do what i’m told. But I still don’t escape your scold
Don't connect all the dots. Give the audience a role in filling in what's happening. That is, give them all the dots they need, but don't connect all the dots for them.
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancin…
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days?
What do video game bosses do while waiting for the main character?
Rather than describing what a character is trying to accomplish (being defensive), consider using the verbs that indicate the actions they're taking against other characters (accusing them…
A hall monitor who’d turned into a Centaur guided me and Dylan to the principal’s office. His hooves clopped noisily on the cobble stones as we followed silently.
Even with my speed power-ups, the bell rang way before I could get any pizza. My stomach rumbled, but I hardly noticed as we all filed into Miss Libby’s classroom with clanking armor and bu…
Since I’d used a surprise attack to battle the Manticore, my stealth stat had increased by two. Dylan crept down the steps only a little ways ahead of me, but my footsteps were totally sile…
So, yeah, mom got mad, but we didn’t have any homeschooling books or anything and the governor sent an email to all the parents telling them exactly what would happen if they pulled their k…
“The news said a gas line burst.” Mom stared out the rearview mirror at the huge wall and gothic towers of my school. “That is no gas line.”
One of the freaky mini-skeletons swung its sword at Alyssa, the super smart girl who always sat at the front of class. She wore silver armor and kicked it with a metal boot.
Dr. Byrd’s device slid across the table when we hit. For a moment, I thought everything would be fine. Then, the machine buzzed like a chainsaw cutting down a whole forest at once. The whin…
Laugh on purpose: queue up the clip that always gets you. Laughter is a fast lane to relief.
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
What has four wheels and flies?
Be Concise
Step away from a conflict to cool down, and say you're stepping away. Space with a note is kindness.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I touch, Will soon turn red.
Compile a list of words that describe you as a child. Compile a second list that describes you as you are now. How are these lists the same? How are they different?
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths unde…
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the t…
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of…
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Your writing's world building only needs to be figured out enough to play on! #writing #story
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This is a cool upgrade from AI Dungeon V1, but at least as far as I've observed, it's not bringing too much new to the table outside of a structure memory system and a bit more systemic order to what players say, do, or act in the story world. Many of the pitfalls of AI writing are still all too prevalent, and I think there will be quite a bit of human writing in demand for the foreseeable future. #letsplay #gamereview #voyage #aidungeon #aigame #writing
There are a lot of great pieces to this project, and I can see the good ideas that are building this into a fun experience. There are still quite a few balancing and other issues that I think the developer will need to address before this is really ready for prime time, but I think there is a really great foundation here to build upon. #gamereview #gaming #strategygames #survivalgame #hexgame #letsplay #walkthrough #winterhuntsus
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