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We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. -- Ellen Goodman

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It Depends on Us... Another year lies before us like an unwritten page, an unspent coin, an unwalked road. the pages will read, what treasures will be gained in exchange for time, or what we find alone the way, will largely depend on us. -- Esther Baldwin York

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.-- Anais Nin

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Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. -- Sir Walter Scott

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The only true disability in life is a bad attitude. -- Scott Hamilton

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The main thing is not how long you're on the planet, but the quality you have while you're here. -- Clint Eastwood

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Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.--Phillips Brooks

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A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! -- Charles Dickens

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Attitude is a choice, made daily. -- Sue Raye

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You're special, you're awesome, you're one of a kind! Best of all, dear Grandchild, you are mine for all time! -- Karen Hill

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Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends.... -- Ruth Goode

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Elephants and grandchildren never forget. -- Andy Rooney

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Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old. -- Mary H. Waldrip

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Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice. -- Serj Tankian

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You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. -- Ruth E. Renkl

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The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. -- Ellen Glasgow

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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. -- Ann Landers

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. -- Joseph Addison

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As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you. -- Grenville Kleiser

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The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. -- John F. Kennedy

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. -- Mark Twain

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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Thomas Henry Huxley

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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.-- Emily Dickinson

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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. -- Francis Maitland Balfour

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The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. -- Eden Phillpotts

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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. -- M. Scott Peck

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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good and dwell as little as possible on the evil and false. -- Richard Cecil

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The sweetest of all sounds is praise. -- Xenophon

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Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I get as scared as anyone, But the feeling of putting yourself on the line and having it work is the most exhilarating feeling in the world. -- Conan O'Brien

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. -- Maxwell Maltz

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Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. -- Winnie the Pooh

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Some people care too much, I think it's called love. -- Winnie the Pooh

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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. -- Winnie the Pooh

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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -- Winnie the Pooh

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Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave. -- Winnie the Pooh

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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. -- Winnie the Pooh

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If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. I’ll always be with you. -- Winnie the Pooh

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. -- Dr. Seuss

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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -- Thomas Jefferson

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden

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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate. -- William Arthur Ward

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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. -- James Allen

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -- Harold Wilson

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When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours. -- Zig Ziglar

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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. -- William Penn

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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. -- Max Lerner

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! -- Soren Kierkegaard

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so. -- Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, un-forgiveness, selfishness, and fears. -- Glenn Clark

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He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. -- St. Basil

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Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own. -- Woodrow T. Wilson

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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. -- Henry Ward Beecher

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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln

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Believe you can and you're halfway there. . -- Theodore Roosevelt

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. -- Groucho Marx

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The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. --Anthony Robbins

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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. -- Anonymous

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It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. -- Jane Hamilton

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There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it. -- RealLivePreacher.com Weblog

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We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring. -- Carl Sagan

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Always remember that dead last is better than did not finish, which is way better than did not start. -- Tara Parker-Pope

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -- John Wooden

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One way of looking at this might be that, for 42 years. I've been making regular deposits in this bank of experience, education, and training. And on January 15 the balance was sufficient that I could make a very large withdrawal. -- Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III

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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. -- Oprah Winfrey

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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. -- Alexander Pope

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house. -- William M. Thackeray

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

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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. -- William O. Douglas

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No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. -- John Donne

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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. -- Joseph Addison

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We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. -- Jeremy Irons

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My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. -- Elaine Maxwell

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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Life to me is no brief candle; it is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. -- George Bernard Shaw

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Anything is good if it's made of chocolate. -- Jo Brand

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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways, it can change someone else's life forever. -- Margaret Cho

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Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day. -- Barbara Sher

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All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence. -- Denis Waitley

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. -- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile. -- William Cullen Bryant

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All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it . . . bearing them all away to the green fields in the South. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. -- George Eliot

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. -- Gordon Graham

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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. -- Maya Angelou

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. -- W. Clement Stone

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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. -- John Burroughs

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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. -- Charles M. Schulz

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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. -- Madonna Ciccone

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It takes a long time to become young. -- Pablo Picasso

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Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve. -- Grenville Kleiser

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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. -- Charles R. Swindoll

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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. -- John Dewey

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My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking. -- Jenna Elfman

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In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection. -- Farrah Gray

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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. -- Henri Frederic Amiel

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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. -- William James

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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? -- Cicero

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You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. -- Ben Stein

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Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around. -- Catherine Deneuve

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Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. -- Mary Kay Ash

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It is the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others. -- Janette Oke

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A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? -- Chinese Proverb

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May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night. -- An Irish Toast

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. -- Margaret Young

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Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. -- Robert Fulghum

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Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. -- Joshua Liebman

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Failure is a detour, not a dead end street. -- Zig Ziglar

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The more sympathy you give, the less you need. -- Malcolm Forbes

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For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us. -- Donald Williams

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Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character. -- George W. Bush

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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. -- Josh Billings

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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh. -- A. A. Milne

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. -- Hugh Downs

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So let us begin anew— remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. -- John F. Kennedy

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There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. -- Martha Graham

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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling, like dew, upon a thought produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think. -- Lord Byron

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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. -- Harper Lee

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True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense. -- Emanuel Swedenborg

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It's never too late to learn. -- Kathy Ireland

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It's never too late to live your own dream -- Oprah

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It's never too late to do something. -- Carl Sandburg

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It's never too late to mend your ways. -- American Proverb

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It's never too late to make a difference. -- Mel

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It's never too late to give up our prejudices. -- Henry David Thoreau

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It's never too late to be who you might have been. -- George Eliot

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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them. -- Louisa May Alcott

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -- Calvin Coolidge

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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. -- Confucius

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If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. -- Author Unknown

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People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment. -- Maxwell Maltz

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Because I think that we -- as a thinking, caring society -- should be nicer to each other, even in the most trivial of situations. -- Ron Rozelle

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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. -- Dale Carnegie

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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable. -- Barry Goldwater

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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. -- Martha Washington

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Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. -- Mother Teresa

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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. -- Benjamin Franklin

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It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. -- Stephen Hawking

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It's always darkest before the dawn. -- Proverb

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It isn't where you came from, it's where you're going that counts. -- Ella Fitzgerald

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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. -- Tommy Lasorda

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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Life appears to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong. -- Charlotte Bronte

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My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. -- Val Saintsbury

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If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. -- Robert Fulghum

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A mind grows by what it feeds on. -- Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen. -- Phillip Adams

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...life is a river, always moving. Just because you have a lot of bad stuff happening doesn't mean you're doomed to a life of bad stuff. The current keeps flowing. Life is not a stagnant pond. Fresh water is just upstream, on its way. -- Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.” -- Mary Anne Radmacher

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it. -- Marcia Wieder

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Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love. -- Tom Hannah

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. -- Helen Keller

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Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. -- Conrad Hilton

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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. -- Randy Pausch

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do. -- Wilferd A. Peterson

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. -- Annie Dillard

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To reach a port, we must sail -- sail, not tie at anchor -- sail, not drift. -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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I'm the one who decides how I feel, no matter what's going on. It enables me to choose happiness at any given moment. -- Montel Williams

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A good laugh is sunshine in a house. -- William Makepeace Thackeray

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Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. -- William Durant

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -- Alexander Graham Bell

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo

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It is not best that we all should think alike, it is differences of opinion that make horse races. -- Mark Twain

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The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln

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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. -- Stephen King

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. -- Aristotle

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -- Mark Twain

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What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? -- Winston Churchill

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Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough. -- Charles F. Kettering

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. -- William James

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there's purpose and worth to each and every life. -- Ronald Reagan

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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. -- William James

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. -- Napoleon Hill

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. -- Victor Hugo

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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. -- William James

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Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. -- Zig Ziglar

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. -- Victor Hugo

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. -- William James

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I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody. -- Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. -- Lou Holtz

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What you think, so you will become. -- Napoleon Hill

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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. -- Victor Hugo

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. -- William James

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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it. -- Henri Frédéric Amiel

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It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you. -- Zig Ziglar

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. -- Napoleon Hill

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Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. -- Victor Hugo

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -- William James

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him... -- Oscar Wilde

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Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. – Teddy Roosevelt

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

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When you have a choice to make and don't make it, that is in itself a choice. -- William James

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The wisest mind has something yet to learn. -- George Santayana

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw away not an hour. -- Benjamin Franklin

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The man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. -- Ella W. Wilcox

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Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre. -- Frank Crane

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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. -- Henry Clay

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Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures. -- Edward Eggleston

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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. -- Benjamin Franklin

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot. -- Josh Billings

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Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. -- Benjamin Franklin

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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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We grow best when clouds hang over us because the clouds bear rain and rain refreshes us. -- Henry Ward Beecher

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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. -- Thomas Jefferson

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it for the memory of a wrong. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He who hunts for flowers will find flowers; and he who loves weeds may find weeds. -- Henry Ward Beecher

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. -- Flora Edwards

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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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...human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -- William James

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Can't never could do anything. -- anonymous

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I can't means one either doesn't know how to do it or doesn't want to do it. -- D. Hunt

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I CAN. -- D. Hunt

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The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. -- Joseph Sugarman

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Every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. -- Thomas Jefferson

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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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When there are problems needing solutions, blame-fixing is a colossal waste of time. -- D. Hunt

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Destiny is no matter of chance, it is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -- William Jennings Bryan

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. -- Les Brown

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The secret of being loved is being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is being unselfish. -- J. G. Holland

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Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. -- Joseph Sugarman

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When down in the mouth, remember Jonah: He came out all right. -- Thomas A. Edison

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[You are] never too old if you truly want to learn. -- Aurale Huff (as quoted by The Ancestry Insider )

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You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. -- Jim Rohn

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -- Margaret Runbeck

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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it. -- Seneca

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Kindness gives birth to kindness. -- Sophocles

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom. -- Charles Dickens

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. -- Charles F. Kettering

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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. -- Henry John Kaiser

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell

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The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way." -- Grace Hopper

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When your daily activities are in concert with your highest priorities, you have a credible claim to inner peace. -- Hyrum Smith

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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. -- Joseph Addison

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey. -- Thomas A. Edison

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What a man chooses, he is. -- The Philadelphia Ledger

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The best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -- William Wordsworth

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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. --Richard Steele

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

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The world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs we endure help us in our marching forward. -- Henry Ford

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Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got. -- Jim Rohn

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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. -- Hayden

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. -- Michel E. De Montaigne

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Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. -- Gerald Jampolsky

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The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be -- today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come. -- W. Clement Stone

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Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. -- Mike Ditka

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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. -- William James.

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Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquility -- instead of anger and resentment. -- Unknown

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If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. -- Mary Engelbreit

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. -- Charles Buxton

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Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. -- Francesca Reigler

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -- Abraham Lincoln

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Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. -- Hubert Humphrey

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. -- Helen Keller

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A smile is the beginning of peace. -- Mother Teresa

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Friends are the sunshine of life. -- John Hay

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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln

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Growth means change and change involves risks, stepping from the known to the unknown. -- George Shinn

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Set priorities for your goals....A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. -- Robert J. McKain

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No person was ever honored for what he received; honor has been the reward for what he gave. -- Calvin Coolidge

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If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem...break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time. -- Robert Collier

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Happiness is not in having or being; it is in doing. -- Lillian E. Watson

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -- Epictetus

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Don't try to reinvent the wheel. -- Unknown

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Life's just one long trial with lots and lots of errors. The only fatal error is being afraid of making any. -- Denis Boyles

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.... -- Walt Whitman

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You're never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -- C. S. Lewis

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Kind words do not cost much....Yet they accomplish much. -- Blaise Pascal

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. -- Robert M. Pirsig

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'Tis the set of the soul which decides its goal and not the calm or the strife. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. -- John Wanamaker

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Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. -- Sydney Smith

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Smile at someone and receive a smile in return. -- Leo Buscaglia

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The moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. -- Henry Drummond

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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. -- James Allen

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Kind words do not cost much.... Yet they accomplish much. -- Blaise Pascal

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Joy is not in things, it is in us. -- Richard Wagner

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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste. -- Jean De La Bruyere

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Consideration for others is the basis for a good life, a good society. -- Confucius

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I would say look at the choices you have, as opposed to the choices that have been taken away from you. -- Michael J. Fox

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A mind always employed is always happy. -- Thomas Jefferson

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It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on. -- Mary Caroline Richards

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Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. William Moulton Marston

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. Thaddeus Golas