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We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. -- Shirley Abbott

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. -- Phyllis Mcginley

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People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. -- Zig Ziglar

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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. -- John Ruskin

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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. -- Horace

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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. -- Jack London

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

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I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something's a big deal for us, it's only become a big deal in the space between our ears. -- Gillian Anderson

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It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break. -- Billy Joel

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Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. -- Lester R. Bittel

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. -- Nancy Astor

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The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. -- William James

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If you can't do what you want, do what you can. -- Lois McMaster Bujold

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. -- Robert Frost

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After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision. -- H. W. Andrews

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True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together. -- Hugh Prather

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If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?-- Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl

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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. -- John F. Kennedy

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. -- Carl Sagan

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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero