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DON'T LET WHAT YOU CANNOT DO INTERFERE WITH WHAT YOU CAN DO.

(John Wooden)

 

NOTHING IS GOOD OR BAD BUT THINKING MAKES IT SO.

(Shakespeare)

 

I AM ONLY ONE; BUT STILL I AM ONE. I CANNOT DO EVERYTHING, BUT STILL I CAN DO SOMETHING; I WILL NOT REFUSE TO DO THE SOMETHING I CAN DO.

(Helen Keller)

 

COURAGE IS RESISTANCE TO FEAR, MASTERY OF FEAR, NOT ABSENCE OF FEAR.

(Mark Twain)

 

IF YOU JUDGE PEOPLE YOU HAVE NO TIME TO LOVE THEM.

(Mother Teresa)

LET THE REFINING AND IMPROVING OF YOUR OWN LIFE KEEP YOU SO BUSY THAT YOU HAVE LITTLE TIME TO CRITICIZE OTHERS.

(Unknown)

 

WELL DONE IS BETTER THAN WELL SAID.

(Benjamin Franklin)

 

A FRIEND IS A GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELF.

(Robert Louis Stevenson)

MOST PEOPLE ARE ABOUT AS HAPPY AS THEY MAKE UP THEIR MINDS TO BE.

(Abraham Lincoln)

 

TO BE WITHOUT SOME OF THE THINGS YOU WANT IS AN INDISPENSABLE PART OF HAPPINESS.

(Bertrand Russell)

 

MAN'S MIND ONCE STRETCHED BY A NEW IDEA, NEVER REGAINS ITS ORIGINAL DIMENSION.

(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

YOU SEE THINGS THAT ARE AND SAY, "WHY?"

BUT I DREAM OF THINGS THAT NEVER WERE AND SAY, "WHY NOT?"

(George Bernard Shaw)

I EXPECT TO PASS THROUGH LIFE BUT ONCE. IF, THEREFORE, THERE BE ANY KINDNESS I CAN SHOW, OR ANY GOOD THING I CAN DO TO ANY FELLOW BEING, LET ME DO IT NOW, FOR I SHALL NOT PASS THIS WAY AGAIN.

(William Penn)

ONE THING ALONE I CHARGE YOU. AS YOU LIVE, BELIEVE IN LIFE! ALWAYS HUMAN BEINGS WILL LIVE AND PROGRESS TO GREATER, BROADER AND FULLER LIFE. THE ONLY POSSIBLE DEATH IS TO LOSE BELIEF IN THIS TRUTH SIMPLY BECAUSE THE GREAT END COMES SLOWLY, BECAUSE TIME IS LONG.

 

HEREIN LIES THE TRAGEDY OF THE AGE: NOT THAT MEN ARE POOR......NOT THAT MEN ARE WICKED......BUT THAT MEN KNOW SO LITTLE OF MEN.

(W.E.B. Du Bois)

 

TREASURE THE LOVE YOU RECEIVE ABOVE ALL. IT WILL SURVIVE LONG AFTER YOUR GOLD AND GOOD HEALTH HAVE VANISHED.

(Og Mandino)

 

IN THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE STREAM AND THE ROCK, THE STREAM ALWAYS WINS - NOT THROUGH STRENGTH BUT BY PERSEVERANCE.

(Unknown)

 

AN IMPROPER MIND IS A PERPETUAL FEAST.

(Logan Pearsall Smith)

 

NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT.

(Eleanor Roosevelt)

LAUGHTER HAS NO FOREIGN ACCENT.

(Paul Lowney)

 

THE ARMORED CARS OF DREAMS, CONTRIVED TO LET US DO SO MANY A DANGEROUS THING.

(Elizabeth Bishop)

 

A MAN THAT IS BORN FALLS INTO A DREAM LIKE A MAN WHO FALLS INTO THE SEA. IF HE TRIES TO CLIMB OUT INTO THE AIR AS INEXPERIENCED PEOPLE ENDEAVOR TO DO, HE DROWNS...TO THE DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENT SUBMIT YOURSELF, AND WITH THE EXERTIONS OF YOUR HANDS AND FEET IN THE WATER MAKE THE DEEP, DEEP SEA KEEP YOU UP.

(Joseph Conrad)

 

THE MIND IS BUT A BARREN SOIL; A SOIL WHICH IS SOON EXHAUSTED, AND WILL PRODUCE NO CROP, OR ONLY ONE, UNLESS IT BE CONTINUALLY FERTILIZED AND ENRICHED WITH FOREIGN MATTER.

(Sir Joshua Reynolds)

 

IF YOU WERE TO DESTROY IN MANKIND THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY, NOT ONLY LOVE BUT EVERY LIVING FORCE MAINTAINING THE LIFE OF THE WORLD WOULD AT ONCE BE DRIED UP.

 

ALL PEOPLE SEEM TO BE DIVIDED INTO "ORDINARY" AND "EXTRAORDINARY". THE ORDINARY PEOPLE MUST LEAD A LIFE OF STRICT OBEDIENCE AND HAVE NO RIGHT TO TRANSGRESS THE LAW BECAUSE...THEY ARE ORDINARY. WHEREAS THE EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO COMMIT ANY CRIME THEY LIKE AND TRANSGRESS THE LAW IN ANY WAY JUST BECAUSE THEY HAPPEN TO BE EXTRAORDINARY.

(Fedor Dostoevsky)

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