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You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
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Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
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Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
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Neckties strangle clear thinking.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool.
-- Richard Feynman
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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
-- Michelangelo
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
-- Gerry Spence
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What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.
-- Buddha
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What we see is mainly what we look for.
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A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-- Plato
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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
-- Marianne Williamson
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-- Gandhi
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
-- Honore de Balzac
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-- Buddha
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
-- Sam Keen
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Fear makes strangers of those who would be friends.
-- Shirley MacLaine
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
-- Albert Einstein
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The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning, you're not old.
-- Rosalyn S.Yalow
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Silence is a source of great strength.
-- Lao Tzu
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He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
-- Chinese Proverb
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.
-- Anais Nin
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We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can.
-- Taoist proverb
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Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
-- Albert Camus
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
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One who asks a question is a fool for a minute; one who does not remains a fool forever.
-- Chinese proverb
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Problems are the price of progress.
-- Charles F. Kettering
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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
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If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose.
-- Mary Pickford
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You know that person you can call at 3 AM when the worst news comes?
Thank them NOW for being that person for you. Don't wait for disaster!
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To the world you may be just one person, but to one person, you may be the world.
-- Brandi Snyder
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Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.
-- Charles W. Chestnutt
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You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
-- Brian Tracy
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Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die.
-- Bassho
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Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
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Strangers are friends you have yet to meet.
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Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
-- Richard Kline
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
-- Dalai Lama
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Doing your best means never stop trying.
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Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
-- Spencer Johnson
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Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.
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Well done is better than well said.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Meet the first beginnings. Look to the budding mischief before it has time to ripen to maturity.
-- Shakespeare
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world, that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.
-- Gandhi
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
-- Jesse Jackson
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The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
-- Harry Kemp
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Gandhi
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Don't wait for people to be friendly. Show them how.
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1. If the game is rigged so you can't win, find another game or invent your own.
2. If you're not winning because you don't know the rules, learn the rules.
3. If you know the rules but aren't willing to follow them, there's either something wrong with the game or you need to change something in yourself.
4. Don't play the game in a half-baked way. Either get all the way in or all the way out.
5. It shouldn't be necessary for others to lose in order for you to win. If others have to lose, re-evaluate the game's goals.
(Breszny, 2005, pg. 84)
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
-- African Proverb
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If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.
-- Daisaku Ikeda
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Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, and influence.
-- Henry Chester
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The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
-- Swedish Proverb
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To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
-- Jim Rohn
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
-- Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
-- Buddha
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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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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Put your future in good hands -- your own.
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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
-- Eckhart Tolle
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Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.
-- Joan Borysenko
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
-- Albert Einstein
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Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
-- Jim Rohn
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When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
-- Miguel Ruiz
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Tip: When deciding on defense or education spending ask yourself how many terrorist do you see in a day compared to how many fucking idiots
-- https://twitter.com/#!/GodlessAtheist
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Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.
-- Doris Mortman
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
-- Albert Einstein
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Knowledge and ego are directly related. The less knowledge, the greater the ego.
-- Albert Einstein
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Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
-- Horace
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If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.
-- Julia Soul
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Patience is passion tamed.
-- Lyman Abbott
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
-- Leo Tolstoy
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An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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1. We are born and we die. No one cares, no one remembers, and it doesn't matter. This is why we laugh.
2. Our pack, our children, our territory, the hunt, the kill, the battle. Health, full stomach, sharp weapons, your packmates next to you under the stars, seeing your child kill her first prey. These are important.
3. Anything else is needless complication, no matter how much fun it is.
4. If you can't eat it, wear it, wield it, or carry it, leave it behind.
5. Plan before hunting, discuss after hunting, hunt while hunting.
6. Lead, follow, or hunt alone. Success-first meat of kill, greater trust. Failure-less trust. Disaster-survivors eat you.
7. Expect trust outside the pack to be betrayed.
8. Two are much stronger than one. Three are much stronger than two. Ten are barely stronger than nine. Fifty are much stronger than ten, but barely stronger than forty.
9. An archer, a swordsman, and a scout are stronger than three swordsmen.
10. Stay alive. Hopeless battles are hopeless. Dead is dead.
11. Stay alive. Once you decide to kill, use all your skill, strength, and deception. Nobly dead is dead.
12. Die biting the throat.
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All of them, those in power, and those who want the power, would pamper us, if we agreed to overlook their crookedness by wilfully restricting our activities.
-- Refus Global
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When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.
-- Wayne Dyer
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
-- Wayne Dyer
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
-- Goethe
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If it's not fun, you're not doing it right.
-- Bob Basso
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The things you own end up owning you.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank.
You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet.
You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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"Fuck off with your sofa units and string green stripe patterns,
I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect,
I say let...lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may."
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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The liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perceptions.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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"Do you know what a duvet is?...It's a blanket. Just a blanket.
Now why do guys like you and me know what a duvet is?
Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then?...We are consumers. We're the byproducts of a lifestyle obsession."
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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"We're consumers. We are byproducts of a lifestyle obsession.
Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me.
What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's all going down, man. So fuck off with your sofa units and Strinne green stripe patterns."
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war...our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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What do you want? Wanna go back to the shit job, fucking condo world, watching sitcoms? Fuck you, I won't do it.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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We are all part of the same compost heap.
(talking about consumerism)
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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How embarrassing...a house full of condiments and no food.
(a synecdoche for modern consumer driven life)
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?
(narrator, while looking at a Calvin Klein-esque ad on the bus)
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Fuck what you know. You need to forget about what you know, that's your problem. Forget about what you think you know about life, about friendship, and especially about you and me.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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"Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat. It's not a goddamn seminar.
Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!"
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Guys, what would you wish you'd done before you died?
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel's life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.
(after Raymond Hessel faces death but lives)
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Hey, you created me...take some responsibility!
(talking to himself about himself)
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.
(talking about Fight Club)
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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God Damn! We just had a near-life experience, fellas.
(suggesting that most experiences are, by nature, dead)
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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Time to stand up for what you believe in.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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"If you are reading this then this warning is for you.
Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned."
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
-- Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
-- Samuel Johnson
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
-- Charles de Montesquieu
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Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.
-- Jack Kornfield
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If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
-- Oscar Wilde
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Let yourself be open and life will be easier.
-- Buddha
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As for the future, your task is not to foresee it but to enable it.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-- Helen Keller
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
-- Albert Schweitzer
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Everything we know is only some kind of approximation.
-- Richard Feynman
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Stay committed in your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
-- Tom Robbins
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I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way -- by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
-- Richard Feynman
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Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
-- Richard Feynman
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It is not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
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Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be happy the thorn bush has roses.
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When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
-- Walt Disney
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Don't think you're on the right road just because it's a well-beaten path.
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Be formless, shapeless -- like water.
-- Bruce Lee
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr
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There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
-- John Allen Paulos
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The whole life of a man is but a point in time; let us enjoy it.
-- Plutarch
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What you do today is important, because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.
-- Maori Proverb
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When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ways to do it.
-- Dr. David Schwartz
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It's not who you are that holds you back; it's who you think you're not.
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Our way to practice is one step at a time, one breath at a time.
-- Shunryu Suzuki
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Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
-- Wayne Dyer
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A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows public opinion.
-- Chinese Proverb
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"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell"
-- Nietzsche
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Don't let today's disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams.
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Would you rather be right or free?
-- Byron Katie
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Faith as an imperative is a veto against science -- in praxi, it means lies at any price.
-- Nietzsche
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History is endured only by strong personalities -- the weak ones are extinguished by it.
-- Nietzsche
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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them.
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Does it just look nice or is it correct?
-- zynamics developer about a control flow graph
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"Nine out of the ten voices in my head say I'm not schizophrenic.
The other one hums the melody of Tetris."
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Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.
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Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life.
-- Daisaku Ikeda
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There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
-- Denis Waitley
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The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
-- C.C. Scott
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-- Aristotle
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Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.
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Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
-- Pema Chodron
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Never confuse motion with action.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Diligence is the mother of good luck.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.
-- Bob Dylan
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
-- Eckhart Tolle
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.
-- Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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Being right is highly overrated. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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Make your life a mission, not an intermission.
-- Arnold H. Glasgow
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
-- Eckhart Tolle
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'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
-- Lin Yutang
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Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
-- Karen Maezen Miller
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In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.
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The journey is the reward.
-- Chinese Proverb
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May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.
-- Irish Blessing
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
-- Oscar Wilde
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Before someone's tomorrow has been taken away, cherish those you love, appreciate them today.
-- Michelle C. Ustaszeski
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time
-- Betty Smith
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When you stop trying to change others and work on changing yourself, your world changes for the better.
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You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.
-- Yogi Bhajan
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If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
-- Lao Tzu
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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.
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The best things in life are unexpected, because there were no expectations.
-- Eli Khamarov
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The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
-- Thucydides
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Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.
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Until you stop breathing, there's more right with you than wrong with you.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
-- Chinese Proverb
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Don't use a lot where a little will do.
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Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.
-- Terry Prachett
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The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
-- Mark Messier
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No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
-- Buddha
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
-- B. F. Skinner
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The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
-- B. B. King
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-- Seneca
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Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
-- Swedish Proverb
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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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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
-- Ferdinand Foch
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
-- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
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There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
-- Roger Staubach
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The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
-- Anonymous
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Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
-- Jim Rohn
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
-- Mary Ann Evans
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It takes two wings to fly.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
-- Eric Schaub
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We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
-- Irish Proverb
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For happiness is anyone and anything at all that's loved by you.
-- Charlie Brown
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Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
-- Zora Neale Hurst
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The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
-- Peter F. Drucker
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
-- Barry M. Goldwater
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Look at what you've got and make the best of it. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
-- E. Joseph Cossman
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Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.
-- Bonaro W. Overstreet
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Booker T. Washington
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
-- Anne Sexton
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The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.
-- Jean de La Fontaine
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There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
-- Fredrick Faber
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Just go out there and do what you've got to do.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Star Jordan
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In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
-- Andrew Carnegie
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
-- Charles Swindoll
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Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
-- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
-- Plato
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
-- Saint Francis de Sales
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Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
-- Carlos Casteneda
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Were it not for hope the heart would break.
-- Scottish Proverb
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
-- Anne Lamott
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn.
-- Hal Borland
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Open your heart -- open it wide; someone is standing outside.
-- Mary Engelbreit
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Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.
-- Anonymous
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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.
-- Colleen C. Barrett
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
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We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
-- Don Marquis
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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons.
-- Louisa May Alcott
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It is better to be faithful than famous.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
-- Ralph W. Sockman
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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.
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I can live for two months on a good compliment.
-- Mark Twain
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It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.
-- John Adams
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
-- Pema Chodron
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No one's head aches when he is comforting another.
-- Indian Proverb
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The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
-- Arthur H. Stainback
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
-- Frederick Buechner
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Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
-- Pope John XXIII
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Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
-- Ashley Smith
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Appreciation...acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
-- Alan Cohen
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
-- Ralph Nichols
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Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
-- Frank Tyger
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
-- Anatole France
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Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.
-- Josie Bisset
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-- Anaïs Nin
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If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
-- Flavia Weedn
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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
-- William Hazlitt
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Within sorrow is grace. When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.
-- Wayne Muller
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When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.
-- Stedman Graham
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What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
-- Father Andre
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A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
-- Plutarch
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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
-- Mark Twain
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Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
-- Wanda Hope Carter
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When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
-- Theodor Seuss Geisel
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"The average person puts only 25%% of his energy into his work.
The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50%% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%%."
-- African Proverb
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Therefore hold to the things which are reliable. Look to simplicity; embrace purity; Lessen the self; diminish desire.
-- Laozi
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My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be.
-- Ross Parmenter
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The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.
-- Ross Parmenter
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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
-- James Allen
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Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
-- Charles Dickens
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We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
-- Lloyd Alexander
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Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
-- Chinese Proverb
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I am a part of all that I have met.
-- Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
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Only a life lived for others is worth living.
-- Albert Einstein
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Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
-- Antoine de Sainte-Exupery
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
-- Democritus
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Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
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Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves, our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
-- William E. Simon
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By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life.
-- Paulo Coelho
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
-- Dr. Leo Buscaglia
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There is something more -- the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.
-- Maya Angelou
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
-- Dr. Thomas Fuller
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Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us.
-- A. G. Trudeau
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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
-- Keshavan Nair
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
-- Gail Devers
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Life means to have something definite to do, a mission to fulfilled and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
-- Dr. Thomas Dooley
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Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
-- Dr. Leo Buscaglia
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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.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.
-- Nancy Coey
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When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
-- Zig Ziglar
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
-- Pamela Vaull Starr
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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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You are here for a purpose. There is no duplicate of you in the whole wide world. There never has been, there never will be. You were brought here now to fill a certain need. Take time to think that over.
-- Lou Austin
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Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
-- John J. McCloy
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Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
-- William Penn
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Dream your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind. Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe. Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind.
-- Debbie Coulter
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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.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Respect is love in plain clothes.
-- Frank Byrnes
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Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
-- Bill Bradley
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When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
-- Roy Disney
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
-- Babe Ruth
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Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
-- Harriet Tubman
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The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
-- Ralph Marston
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
-- Earl Gray Stevens
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Confidence...thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
-- Alan Alda
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
-- Laozi
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
-- Les Brown
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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
-- Bill Cosby
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
-- Washington Irving
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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
-- George Santayana
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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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