Thought of the Day

You struggle with money. You struggle without money. You struggle with love. You struggle without love. But it's how you manage. You have to keep laughing, you have to be fun to be with, and you have to live with style--not fancy-schmancy, but in a way which is present and meaningful and has some beauty to it.

Pierce Brosnan

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Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles.
Bob Richards

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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

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Often we remain silent when we need to speak. Without words, it is hard to love well. It is not always easy to express our love directly in words. Butwhenever we do, we discover we have offered a blessing that will be longremembered.
Henri J. M. Nouwen

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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

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The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within--strength, courage, dignity.

Ruby Dee

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

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As bread is the staff of life, the simple sustenance of the body, so appreciation is the food of the soul.
Priscilla Wayne

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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert H. Humphrey

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When you finally allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it, you will find you dance with everything.
Pat Rodegast

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The cure for anything is salt water--sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
Gil Stern

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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
Yiddish proverb

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People will a ccept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins

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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of.
Burt Bacharach

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Recognize a failure early and go on to the next idea.
Bill Heinecke

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Learn to...be what you are, and learn to resign with good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh

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In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra

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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
William S. Burroughs

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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Socrates

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Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vesta M. Kelly

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Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir

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First a person should put his house together, then his town, then the world.
Rabbi Israel Salanter

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Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
James Naismith

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And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi

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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within your control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental role and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.
Epictetus

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
Dorothea Brande

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The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need be.
Louis de Bernieres

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Too much has been said of the heroes of history--the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly and the tolerant.
Stephen Leacock

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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

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Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Louis E. Boone

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It is said that grace enters the soul through a wound.
Heather McDonald

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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta

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Where your talents and the needs of the world cross lies your calling.
Aristotle

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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller

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The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
William Van Horne

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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand

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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
Seneca Proverb

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen

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Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom ofcompromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. Believethe best rather than the worst; people have a way of living up or downto your opinion of them. Remember that true friendship is the basis forany lasting relationship. The person you choose to marry is deservingof the courtesies and kindness you bestow on your friends.
Jane Wells

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

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Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist

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Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
W. Stanley Mooneyham

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Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
Spanish proverb

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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,Therefore, we are saved by hope.Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;Therefore, we are saved by faith.Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.Therefore, we are saved by love.No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The human race has one effective weapon--and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

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We only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you’ve never tried. Teach it. Do it. Risk it.
Jon Blais

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The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier

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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

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I believe in people and think they are more effective when given principles rather than procedures, strategies rather than tactics, whys rather than wants.
Harvey Golub

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The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Count di Cavour

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Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
Confucius

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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford

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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

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When one teaches, two learn.
Robert Half

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Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman

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He who smiles rather than rages is always stronger.
Japanese proverb

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If I won't be myself, who will?
Alfred Hitchcock

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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
George Steiner

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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Mary Frances Berry

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Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day -- putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.
Nido Qubein

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You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

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I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance.
Charles Barkley

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Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses

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You don't need to be sick to get better.
Author unknown

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hOne should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein

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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

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You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.
Carisa Bianchi

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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson

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Surprises, by their nature, come in disguise, masked sometimes as disappointments or detours when they're in fact dreams turning solid, if you'll just step aside and give them some air.
Nancy Gibbs

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero

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If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
Earl Nightingale

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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault

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More things are wrought by prayer. Than this world dreams of.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.
James E. Sweaney

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We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
Charles C. West

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But where was I to start? The world is so vast. I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No: my home. No: my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
Elie Wiesel

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The more you can allow yourself to make mistakes, the better off you're going to be. That's what life is about. You're going to get thrown off, and you just need to get back on.
Patrick Dempsey

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander Pope

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Follow your passion, and success will follow you.
Arthur Buddhold

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out.
Eleanor Porter

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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge

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Talking about bulls is not the same as facing them in the ring.
Mexican Proverb

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Anne Frank

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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck

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If you have the courage to step outside of your comfort zone, you will not only be amazed by the marvel and sights of the world, but also with the wonders that lay deep within yourself.
Rosanna Ienco

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Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
Hubert Humphrey

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

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The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
Norman Vincent Peale

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At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.
Hudson newsletter

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
John le Carre

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We were not created to be eaten by anxiety, but to walk erect, free, unafraid in a world where there is work to do, truth to seek, love to give and win.

Joseph Ford Newton

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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

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We were not created to be eaten by anxiety, but to walk erect, free, unafraid in a world where there is work to do, truth to seek, love to give and win.
Joseph Ford Newton

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A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't.
Jack Dempsey

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The role of a leader is to define reality and give hope.
Napolean

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The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions.
A. Jay

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

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Follow your passion, and success will follow you.
Arthur Buddhold

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Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

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Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Harvey Mackay

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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Eleanor H. Porter, "Pollyanna"

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Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Basil King

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In the end the great truth will have been learned, that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer than the prize, or rather that the effort is the prize, the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
Benjamin Cardozo

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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Frank Tibolt

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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
Johann von Goethe

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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bern Williams

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When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert

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Old times never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
George E. Woodberry

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You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.
Dr. Wayne Dyer

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Your dream is not big enough if it doesn't scare you.
Matthias Schmelz

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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy

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It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

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When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

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You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out he hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott

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The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc

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No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency.
Teddy Roosevelt

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Being busy isn’t the same as accomplishing something.
Ernest Hemingway

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

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As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

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Well begun is half done.
Aristotle

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Teddy Roosevelt

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Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Quentin Crisp

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Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Unknown Author

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales

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For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D. Souza

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The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
Montaigne

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Think and speak the beautiful only.
Christian Larson

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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou

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The only difference between stumbling blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them.
Unknown

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Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
Brett Butler

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It is a lesson which all history teaches the wise, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.
Albert Einstein

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When our hope breaks, let our patience hold.
Thomas Fuller

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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
Alistair Cooke

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Ani DiFranco

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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

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The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates

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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Arnold Toynbee

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Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Thomas Fuller

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Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.
Herbert N. Casson

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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
David Lloyd George

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Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
Bill Gates

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A quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it,the more sour it grows.
Bolivian Proverb

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Habits are like supervisors that you don't notice.
Hannes Messemer

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Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.
Aristotle

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The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy

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What we love to do we find time to do.
John L. Spalding

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Richard Ben Sapir

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Nothing is difficult if you're used to it.
Indonesian Proverb

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Denis Waitley

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
Beca Lewis Allen

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One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over. You see, your problem won't improve with age.
Warren Buffett

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales

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Dress a goat in silk and it's still a goat.
Celtic Proverb

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It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
Edward W. Ziegler

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Good friends are good for your health.
Irwin Sarason

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Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are.
Mark McGinnis

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Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
Dave Mustaine

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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault

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Develop a compulsion to closure. Once you begin, refuse to stop before completion.
Brian Tracy

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People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.
Steve Jobs

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Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can.
John Wesley

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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
Susan B. Anthony

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There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen

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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’ve signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Jim Rohn

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.
Proverb

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Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do.
Paul Meyer

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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson: to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power...
Mahatma Gandhi

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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard

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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Craik

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It's easier to tear a hole than to mend one.
Russian Proverb

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He that lives in hope danceth without music.
George Herbert

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan

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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

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The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them.
Paul Hawken

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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
Charles De Gaulle

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace Walpole

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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert

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Clutter is the same thing as junk. It just has a home.
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Better to bend than break.
Scottish Proverb

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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein

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Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that.
Carlton Young

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

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Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez

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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

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Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Will Smith

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Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
Sir John Lubbock

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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
Lao-Tzu

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To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds

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Enjoy life: this is not a rehearsal.
Bumper sticker

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[I]n a world that seems increasingly snarky and judgmental, be kind. Be kind to your friends, be kind to your family, be kind to yourselves. And remember, just as you are, everyone really is just doing the best they can.Katie Couric

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To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa

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If you can't feed 1,000 people, then feed one.
Mother Teresa

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The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

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Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Treat the world well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was willed to you by your children.
Kenyan Proverb

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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

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What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock

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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel A. Barker

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

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Great things are done more through courage than wisdom. ­
German proverb

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It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society.
J. Krishnamurti

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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon Mclaughlin

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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
George Linnaeus Banks

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson

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I share with you he agony of your grief, the anguish of your heart finds echo in my own.
Howard Thurman

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Too many people miss out on the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Maurice Setter

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I do not mean to gloss over or discount the very real suffering in this world. Nevertheless, when something bad happens and we feel we have no control over the tragedy itself, we still have some control over our responses. We can lash out in bitterness and anger against the unfairness of life that has deprived us of pleasure and joy. Or, we can look for good in unexpected sources, even our apparent enemies.
Philip Yancey

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I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that; then I realized I was somebody.
Lily Tomlin

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Jim Rohn

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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey

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I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

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Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
Charles Brower

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Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth Renkel

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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. Somerset Maugham

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
Sally Koch

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What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey

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Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn

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To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight--and never stop fighting.
E.E. Cummings

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Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.
George W. Crane

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I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
Dr. Seuss

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom

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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh

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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin

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Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
Wilson Mizner

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.
Proverb

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

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A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
Chinese Proverb

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Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding.
Chinese proverb

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise; then you will discover the fullness of your life.
David Steindl-Rast

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Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.
Harvey G. Cox

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Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
Henry David Thoreau

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Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger.
H.G. Wells

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Action is eloquence.
Shakespeare

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The imagination needs moodling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering.
Brenda Ueland

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw

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Life is a roller-coaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
David Schmaltz

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At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found. Hudson Newsletter

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Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
Henry Chester

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Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease.
Jim Rohn

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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Teddy Roosevelt

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There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak

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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles

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The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Confucius

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Without struggle there is no progress.
F. Douglas

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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryan

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Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
J.B. Massieu

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Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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Endings need not be public, newsworthy events. Throughout your life, there will be many little endings, every day. It is these endings that somehow give shape to the fragments of your life that are called experience. And it is this “experience” that makes up one’s life.
James V. Cunningham

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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Theodore Rubin

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A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
William Shedd

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The purpose of an education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.

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Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George McDonald

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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

Lester B. Pearson

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
G. K. Chesterton

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An individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity. Every person must decide, at some point, whether they will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement. Life's most persistent and urgent quest is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King Jr.

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

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No day is so bad that it can't be made better with a nap. Carrie Snow

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He who conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
Turkish Proverb

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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Jim Rohn