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"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
--Nelson Mandela

"Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them?"
--Anon.

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
--Confucious

"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
--John Mason Brown, drama critic

"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in reaching 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

"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it's raining, but the feel of being rained upon."
--E.L. Doctorow

"Do not look forward with hesitation or back with regret, but look all around you and learn."
--Phyllis Engle

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places."
-- Anon.

"The world owes all its onwards impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits."
--Nathaniel Hawthorn

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"A friend is a person with a sneaky habit of saying good things about you behind your back. But a best friend makes sure she says them to your face."
--M.L. Pearce

"Each of us speaks, moves, thinks and feels in a different way, each according to the image of themselves that they have built up over the years. In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us."
--Moshe Feldenkrais, from "Zen and the Art of Making a Living"

"Every person has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."
--Alphonse Karr

"We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. The man is best who has fewest."
--Horace

"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god."
--Napoleon

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
--Mary Lou Cook

"The moment you blame anyone for anything, your relationship and your personal power deteriorate."
--Brian Koslow

"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, your world will at last be built."
-- James Allen

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"I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
--Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Wealth lost - something lost; Honor lost - much lost; Courage lost - all lost."
--German proverb

"You have enemies? Good! It means you've stood up for something at least once in your life."
--Anon.

"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries it's banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another."
-- Helen Hunt Jackson

"Paradise is not a place -- it's a state of mind."
--Frank K. Sonnenberg

"Opportunity may knock only once but it passes by your door every day."
--Frank K. Sonnenberg

"Learn how to disagree without being disagreeable."
--Frank K. Sonnenberg

"You never know when you're making a memory."
--Frank K. Sonnenberg

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe." -- Robert W. Service

"Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect."
-- Carl Sandburg about Abraham Lincoln

"To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
-- E.E. Cummings

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"You are not searching for the door, but what is beyond it."
--Unknown

"Life is an adventure to be lived, not a problem to be solved."
--Unknown

"I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not."
-- Lucille Ball

"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."
--Dag Hammarskjold

"Nothing is worth more than this day."
--Goethe

"It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers."
--John P. Lougbrane

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"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things."
--William J. Lock

"The best way out of a problem is through it."
--anon

"Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves."
--John P. Sheerin

"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
--Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
--Dale Carnegie

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."
--Agnes de Mille

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