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Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. -- German Proverb

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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. -- Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenly and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It's funny that those things your kids did that got on your nerves seem so cute when your grandchildren do them. -- Unknown

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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. -- Frederick Wilcox

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Forgiveness is the final form of love. -- Reinhold Niebuhr

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The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. -- Michael Althsuler

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Remember, no man is a failure who has friends. -- Clarence, Angel 1st Class

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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. - Norman Vincent Peale

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You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future. -- Richard Bach

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I keep six honest serving men They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. -- Rudyard Kipling

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'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. -- Charles Lamb

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I feel blessed to have been raised a Texan, in a part of the world where individualism is strong. Where people can dream big dreams and achieve them. -- George W. Bush

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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -- Galileo Galilei

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living. -- Amanda Bradley

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In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. -- Roger Allen

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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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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. -- Aldous Huxley

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I feel that I'm basically decent. I would like to think that, if someone admires me for anything, it's because of decency. -- Don Meredith

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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson

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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. -- Oren Arnold

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving. -- Maxwell Maltz

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Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it, it is good only for wallowing. -- Katherine Mansfield

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We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. -- Alan Chadwick

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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily. -- Ivy Baker Priest

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. -- Kahil Gibran

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Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. -- Dr. Seuss

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At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. -- Thomas Tusser

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Parliamentary government can work with two parties on the extremes of the political spectrum and nobody in between because the ruling party has almost unchecked power. In our system of checks and balances, it's completely different... the big problems can't be solved without bipartisanship. -- Chet Edwards

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It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others. -- Michel de Montaigne

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Your mind is your best camera . . . Go out and take some beautiful pictures. -- Daryl Ryman

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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. -- Cyril Connolly

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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. -- Dennis Wholey

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Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along. -- Jody Watley

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! -- Amanda Bradley

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate. -- Sandra Boynton

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Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same. -- Flavia Weedn

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.-- Walt Whitman

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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. -- James Allen

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The sun'll come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun! -- Annie

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice. -- Kirby Larson

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Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. -- Clive Staples Lewis

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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? -- Bertolt Brecht

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Dance like there's nobody watching, Sing as if no one is listening to... What you're hearing, Love like you've never been hurt before, Try to forget if you can, And just dance. -- Mario Frangoulis

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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. -- Aristotle

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

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I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I’m here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it. -- Dietrich Bondoeffer

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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard. -- Abraham Maslow

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.-- Henri-Frederic Amiel

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Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities. -- Terry Josephson

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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. -- Winston Churchill

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences. -- Harry S. Truman

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. -- James A. Michener

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust

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Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. -- George Carlin

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Gray hair is a sign of age not of wisdom. -- Greek Proverb

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. -- Cicero

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If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. -- Albert Camus

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. -- Carol Burnett

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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Joseph Addison

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. -- Vernon Sanders Law

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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. -- Robert Goddard

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -- Charles F. Kettering

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. -- Babe Ruth

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. -- Albert Einstein

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After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. -- William R. Alger

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. -- Elsa Maxwell

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May joy and peace surround you, contentment latch your door, and happiness be with you now and bless you evermore. -- Irish Blessing

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The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don’t limit it. -- John Eliot

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth. -- Pat Riley

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young. -- Samuel Ullman

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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. -- James Allen

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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Unknown

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Everywhere you look in this country, it seems that we are suffering from the consequences of too much short-term thinking. -- Paul Saffo

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It’s what we learn after we think we know it all that counts. -- Kim Hubbard

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We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race. -- Cicero

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Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. -- Helen Keller

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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. -- Carl Schurz

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” to me. 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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He set an example. He never was afraid to try new ideas. He dreamed big and fully expected dreams to come true and made them come true. -- Spike Dykes (referring to Emory Bellard)

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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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I'm Ok, You're Ok. -- Thomas A Harris

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

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Don't frown because it's over. Smile because it happened. -- Unknown

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One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. -- John Jay Chapman

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. -- Steve Jobs

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - Think of it, ALWAYS. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

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Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. -- Robert Collier

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. -- John F. Kennedy

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. -- Albus Dumbledore (J. K. Rowling)

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A good back porch neighbor is a wonderful thing. -- Terry Dennis

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Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. -- Peter T. McIntyre

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I am not a has-been. I am a will be. -- Lauren Bacall

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. -- Albert Schweitzer

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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. -- Ursula K. Le Guin

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Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. -- Helen Powers

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I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! -- Dr. Seuss

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We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities. -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. -- Albert Schweitzer

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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. -- Jean Cocteau

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. -- Louise Driscoll

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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain. -- Henry David Thoreau

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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. -- Helen Keller

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We can give thanks for our health and happiness, the support we receive from our families and friends, some wonderful memories and the excitement that each new day brings. -- Queen Elizabeth II

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I want to do the best I can. Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance, but I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity. Perhaps one day I will go into space. -- Stephen Hawking

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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. -- Warren Buffett

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To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide, And tremble to be happy with the rest." And I make answer: "I am satisfied; I dare not ask; I know not what is best; God hath already said what shall betide." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage

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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. -- Arthur Balfour

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Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities. -- John C. Maxwell

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. -- Isaac Asimov

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The good life is not a problem-free life. -- Michael A. Schuler

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Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference. -- Joel Barker

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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. -- Michael Pritchard

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Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. -- Tom Head

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Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. -- Joseph Addison

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Even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.-- Mort Crim

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all of your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear -- Cesare Pavese

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Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. -- Dale E. Turner

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One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. -- Richard Bach

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You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own. -- Mark Victor Hansen

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. -- Thomas Jefferson

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...failure is implicit in the arts and in virtually any endeavor that leads to a satisfactory life. You try things, you fall on your face, you figure out what went wrong, you go back and try them again. -- Jules Feiffer

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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -- Mohandas Gandhi

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Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell. -- Bill Copeland

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Laughter is as intimate as you can get without touching someone. -- Gina Barreca

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The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. -- Morris Dees

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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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And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. -- Martin Scorsese

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To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without source, a tree without a root. -- Chinese Proverb

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

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The most sophisticated people I know -- inside they are all children. -- Jim Henson

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said. -- "Silent Cal" Coolidge

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use? -- Dale Carnegie

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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. -- Erma Bombeck

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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as you. -- George Bernard Shaw

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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. -- William Penn

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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. -- Solomon Ibn Gabriol

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We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. -- James Freeman Clarke

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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. -- James Allen

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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. -- John W. Gardner

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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

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I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. -- Charles R. Swindoll

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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. -- Plutarch

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All you have in your life is your word, your handshake, and the image you portray. -- Roy Rogers

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We must care about the world of our children and grandchildren, a world we may never see. -- Bertrand Russell

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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. -- Thomas Merton

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...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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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. -- Dale Carnegie

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If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. -- Michael Crichton

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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. -- Robert Conklin

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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers. -- Maya Angelou

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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. -- Jawaharlal Nehru

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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -- Albert Schweitzer

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I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. -- Etienne de Grellet

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Dreams come a couple sizes too big so you can grow into them. -- Rev. Run

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Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. -- Blaine Lee

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I would rather live an optimist sometimes disappointed than a cynic sometimes surprised. -- Deason Hunt

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. -- Sophia Loren

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In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before. - -Frank Dane

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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. -- Nelson Henderson

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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. -- Joseph Wood Krutch

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I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days. -- Bill Dana

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Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off. -- Michael Nelson

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. -- Henry David Thoreau

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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. -- Nolan Bushnell

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. -- Hugh White

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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. -- Anna Jameson

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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. -Noam Chomsky

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Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. -- Swedish Proverb

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Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. -- Jamie Paolinetti

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Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up. -- Walter Benjamin

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On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives. -- Mike DeWine

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If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? -- John Gunther

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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. -- Charles H. Spurgeon

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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -- Wilson Mizner

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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. -- John Lubbock

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Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation. -- Lois Wyse

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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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The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. -- Pema Chodron

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Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. -- Carl Sagan

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Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. -- Albert Einstein

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. -- Russell Baker

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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.-- Freya Stark

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It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.' -- Audrey Hepburn

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I frequently-regularly-often trip while reaching for my high ideals. Then I giggle, or cry, and get back up. -- Erika Harris

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Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. -- Brian Adams

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone

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I believe that the good Lord gave us an finite number of heartbeats, and I'm "bleep" if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street. -- Neil Armstrong

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El que calla otorga. -- Mexican Proverb (Who is silent consents.)

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A little of anything isn't worth a pin; but a wee bit of sense is worth a lot. -- Irish Proverb

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He who fears death enjoys not life. -- Spanish Proverb

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Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. -- Kin Hubbard

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Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom. -- Welsh Proverb

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We have within ourselves
Enough to fill the present day with joy,
And overspread the future years with hope. -- William Wordsworth

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. -- Dorothea Kent

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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.-- Robert A. Heinlein

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The forest is magnificent, yet it contains no perfect trees. -- Gye Fram

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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. -- Maya Angelou

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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. -- Henry David Thoreau

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Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. -- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. -- Thomas Henry Huxley

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Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. -- Tom Robbins

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June is bustin' out all over.The feelin' is gettin' so intense, That the young Virginia creepers Hev been huggin' the bejeepers Outa all the mornin' glories on the fence! -- Richard Rodgers

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There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand. -- Charles Morgan

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Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain. -- Dwight D Eisenhower

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Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. -- Charles Dickens

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It's you attitude not you aptitude which determines your altitude. -- Zig Ziglar

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I don't believe that things always happen for the best, but I do believe that it's possible to make the best of things that happen. -- Tal Ben-Shahar

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Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. -- Gregory Dickow

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The right angle to approach a difficult problem is the "try-angle." -- God's Little Instruction Book

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Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. -- Hugh Sidey

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Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic. -- Anonymous

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The measurement of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least 28 times before I finally conquered it. -- Julia Child

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Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?" -- Richard Carlson

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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. -- George Eliot

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Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. -- H.W. Byles

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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came. -- Charles Kingsley

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Old wine and friends improve with age. -- Italian Proverb

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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? -- Henry David Thoreau

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You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. -- Ethel Barrymore

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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. -- Pablo Casals

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Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. -- Robert Fulghum

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Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. -- Terri Guillemets

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And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? -- Rainer Maria Rilke

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. -- Laurence Sterne

Always act as if you had been taught good manners. -- Deason Hunt

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Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. -- Frank Herbert

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It's why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight. -- Casey Korkus

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When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful. -- Drew Barrymore

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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. -- Hans Christian Andersen

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There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. -- English Proverb

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The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.-- Don Williams, Jr.

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. -- Helen Keller

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The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, What am I doing? -- Jack Handey

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Surround yourself with "yay-sayers" not naysayers." -- Lynn A. Robinson

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Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? -- Benjamin Franklin

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Your attitude is more important than your aptitude. -- Zig Ziglar

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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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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. -- Matt Biondi

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. -- Lynn Hall

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A sense of humor is one of the most important things we possess. I equate it with faith, love or happiness; you can't see any of those things either, but we all know they exist and we all know they're good. -- Gabriel Lang

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Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -- George Sala

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Hope is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tunes without the words - And never stops - at all. -- Emily Dickinson

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The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. -- Les Brown

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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton

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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. -- Flip Wilson

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Where there is no vision a people perish. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. -- Doug Larson

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Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. -- Horace

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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. -- Nelson Henderson

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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. -- Winnie the Pooh

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There are always flowers for those who want to see them. -- Henri Matisse

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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle. -- Thich Nhat Hanh

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -- Prince Gautama Siddharta

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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. -- Thich Nhat Hanh

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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of wisdom through a crowd without singeing someone’s beard. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? --Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar

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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. -- Dutch Proverb

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! -- Mark Twain

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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. -- James Allen

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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. -- Ivy Baker

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The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart. -- Yakov Smirnoff

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Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.-- Abraham Lincoln

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You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you will be the guy who'll decide where you'll go. -- Dr. Seuss

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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. -- Dr. Seuss

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Good cheer is something more than faith in the future, it is gratitude for the past and joy in the present. -- Source Unknown

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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. -- Friedrich Neitzke

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After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. -- Bertha von Suttner

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You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.-- Gary Ryan Blair

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -- Harvey Fierstein

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A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward. -- St. Basil

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Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. --Claude M. Bristol

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People say and do provocative things all the time. The other side always has the choice of reacting with anger and ratcheting up the confrontation. But civility sometimes means not taking the bait and giving cooler heads a chance to prevail. -- Dallas Morning News 3/17/2010

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If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain. -- Dolly Parton

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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. -- Calvin Coolidge

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Politeness is the flower of humanity. -- Joseph Joubert

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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -- Leo Buscaglia

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Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due. -- Will Rogers

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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. -- Lou Holtz

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The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. -- William Shakespeare

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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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No one is exempt from nature's mandate to be both a sender and receiver of positive messages. -- Paul Richards

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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -- Mohandas Gandhi

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If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse. --Walt Disney

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There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. -- Marshall McLuhan

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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. --Joseph Addison

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

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. -- Napoleon Hill

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

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As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works. -- John Maxwell

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May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through. -- An Irish Blessing

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Use what talent you possess - the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. -- Henry Van Dyke

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. -- Pam Brown

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James

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

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How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community. -- Barbara Jordan

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. -- William James

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When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely. -- Dana Reeve

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay

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Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future. -- Peter Drucker

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear… -- Henry van Dyke

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. -- King Whitney Jr.

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Snowflakes melt alone - but together they can be traffic stoppers! Teamwork allows common people to attain uncommon results. Some people want it to happen, some wish it to happen, others make it happen. Volunteers aren't paid, not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless. -- Anonymous

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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause. -- Gustav Mahler

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Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow, The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. -- Marya Mannes

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. -- Ben Stein

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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. -- Mark Twain

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Pick the day. Enjoy it -- to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present -- and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future. -- Audrey Hepburn

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Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. -- Chuck Close

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle

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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. -- James Allen

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There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own. -- Edwin Markham

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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. -- George Washington Carver

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing. -- Jacques Cousteau

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Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand. -- Edward Everett Hale

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. -- Vince Lombardi

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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. . . . There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. -- Alan Cohen

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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking. -- Phaedrus

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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. -- E.F. Schumacher

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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. -- Sara Teasdale

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The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration. -- Cornel West

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. -- Robert Frost

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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. -- Albert Schweitzer

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All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. -- Danny Thomas

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If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled. -- Red Skelton

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Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. -- Emory Austin

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Think about who you are and how you want to live. How will you make the most of your life now? Do not stifle your dreams. -- Richard M. Cohen

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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. -- Navajo song

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Spend 80 percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. -- Brian Tracy

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Don't find fault. Find a remedy. -- Henry Ford

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Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. -- John Boswell

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When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be. -- Celia Thaxter

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One kind word can warm three winter months. -- Japanese proverb

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -- John Ruskin

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This is Albany. We're going to need a fireplace. -- Ray Richardson

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Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive... I still find it staggering that I am here at all. -- Christopher Leach

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Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel. -- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure

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Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember. -- Maxwell Maltz

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Decide if you're Tigger or Eeyore. -- Randy Pausch

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Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be. -- Marsha Petrie Sue