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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
- Aldous Huxley

"The community is created, not when people come together in the name of religion, but when they come together bringing honesty, respect, and kindness to support an awakening of the sacred."
--Jack Kornfield

"If our lives are indeed the sum total of the choices we've made, then we cannot change who we are. But with every new choice we make, we have the opportunity to change who we are going to be."
- unknown

"We wouldn't aspire to something if it wasn't within our capability to achieve it. We can see, both literally and figuratively, ahead as far as we want to go. Because we can perceive something means that it is already a part of us. Distance, whether in time or space, is all relative."
--Lissa Coffey (Lisa Marie Coffey)

"Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them."
- Suzanne Necker

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-- George Orwell

"Life is not about the time, it's about the depth of the experience."
--Unknown

"It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings."
--Gus Van Sant

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going."
--David Starr Jordan

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"Don't tell me how you can't, Show me how you can."
- Jeff Wixom

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
--Albert Einstein

"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization."
--George Clemenceau

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
--Niels Bohr

"Don't walk ahead of me for I may not follow; don't walk behind me for I may not lead; just walk beside me and be my friend."
--Albert Camus

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."
- William Arthur Ward

"You have to break the pattern to see the possibilities."
--Allie Ford

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences."
--Robert G. Ingersoll

"Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf."
--American Indian Proverb

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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
--Helen Keller

"It's not what they take away from you that counts; it's what you do with what you have left."
--Hubert Humphrey

"The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred."
--Eugene Kennedy

"The greatest test of courage on Earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
--Robert G. Ingersoll

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.">
--Andre Gide

"Do not restrict your ambitions. If your ambition is to reach the stars, the chances are that you will reach the tops of the trees. If your ambition is to reach the tops of the trees, the chances are that you will only reach to where the dog pisses against the tree."
--Tahir Darr

"When you're a little kid you're a bit of everything: scientist, philosopher, artist. Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time."
--Narrator, The Wonder Years

"A noble person is one who readily admits when they err, and speaks humbly of their accomplishments."
--Gordon Park

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
--Seneca

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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people."
--Virginia Woolf

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
--Stephen Covey

"Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars."
--Serbian Proverb

"There are many things worth living for. There are a few things worth dying for. There is nothing worth killing for."
--Tom Robbins

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
--Edgar Alan Poe

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

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
--Emiliano Zapata

"All men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln

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"A truth is the single most powerful thing in the world. A well-placed truth cn kill, and it can give lift. One truth can change the world."
--Kari Collins

"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."
--Hubert Humphrey

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
--Dwight Eisenhower

"Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go."
--T.S.Eliot

"In the business world, an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something, and the switchboard operator knows everything."
--Howard Coffin

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
--Plato

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."
--Indira Gandhi

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."
--Leo Aikman

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"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are."
--Anais Nin

"Never play leapfrog with a unicorn."
--Anon.

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it prevents you from having to try, and perhaps failing."
--Vladimir Zworykin

"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club."
--John London

"The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance, the wise person grows it under his feet."
--James Oppenheim

"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms ipon life, you must accept the terms it offers you."
--T.S. Eliot

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"In the great supermarket of life, may the wheels of your trolley all move in the same direction"
--Unknown

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the cicumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
--George Bernard Shaw

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."
--Robert Schuller

"It takes less time to do the right thing than to explain why you did it wrong."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Self-assurance is two-thirds of success."
--Gaelic proverb

"There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those wo wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group."
--Mary Kay Ash

"The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues."
--Marcus Aurelius

"Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done."
--Benjamin Morell

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"We are all given only a little madness, we mustn't waste it."
--Robin Williams

"If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."
--John Atkinson

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
--G.K. Chesterton

"You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is runing inside you."
--Rwandan Proverb

"Fear is the highest fence."
--Dudley Nichols

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It ain't what they call you. It's what you answer to."
--W.C. Fields

"The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations to everything and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen."
--Anouk Aimee

"Courage... is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
--Harper Lee

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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
--T.S. Eliot

"Live truth instead of professing it."
--Elbert Hubbard

"The whole poing of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."
--Lady Stella Reading

"The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them."
--Anon

"The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground."
--Anon

"In golf as in lift it is the follow through that makes the difference."
--Anon.

"I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may be just little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing."
--Kareem Abdul-Jabar

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
--George Bernard Shaw

"The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
--Socrates

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffive to solve most of the world's problems."
--Gandhi

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"Those that will lie for you will eventually lie to you."
--Unknown

"Nothing's impossible for those who don't have to do it."
--Unknown

"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual acheivements, but moral acts: to return love for hate; to include the excluded; and to say 'I was wrong'."
--Sydney J. Harris

"Fine: A tax for doing wrong.
Tax: A fine for doing fine."
--Anon

"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it."
--Anon

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
--Sydney J. Harris

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work, risking, and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful -- yourself."
--Alan Alda

"Old age is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get the more tired and breathless you become. But your view becomes much more extensive."
--Charles Marowitz

"Few men own their property. Their property owns them."
--Robert G. Ingersoll

"Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains."
--Edmund Ruffin

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"Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."
--Kathleen Norris

"Only the brave know how to forgive."
--Laurence Sterne

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Since there is nothing so worth having as friends, never miss a chance to make them."
--Francesco Guicciardini

"It is easier to forgive an enemy that to forgive a friend."
--William Blake

"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'"
--Grace Hopper

"Never believe the obvious is true."
--William Safire

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it -- even if I have said it -- unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
--Buddha

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
--African proverb

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
--George Eliot

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
--Juan Ramon Jimenez

"If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, you listening skills will increase."
--Brian Koslow

"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."
--Clark Moustakas

"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."
--Andre Maurois

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
--Herman Melville

"If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it."
--Lord Brabizon

"Jealousy is the greatest of all sufferings, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it."
--Paul De Gondi

"To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment."
--George E. Woodberry

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"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once."
--Lillian Dickson

"Man always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars and so on... while all the dolphins had ever done was much about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man... for precisely the same reason."
--Douglas Adams

"When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves."
--Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Each moment is a place you've never been."
--Mark Strand

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
--C. Archie Danielson

"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
--Ray Bradbury

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
--James Baldwin

"Conflict builds character. Crisis defines it."
--Steven V. Thulon

"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
--Warren Dennis

"Every artist was first an amateur."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
--Michaelangelo

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."
--robert Pirsig

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
--Benjamin Mays

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
--Jonathan Kozol

"We rate ability in men by what they finish, not what they begin."
--Anon

"Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow."
--Henry Haskins

"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."
--Anon

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
--Ayn Rand

"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study."
--Chinese proverb

"Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson. You find the present tense and the past perfect."
--Unknown

"We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves."
--William Styron

"No one is expected to achieve the impossible."
--French proverb

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"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."
--Barbara Kingsolver

"Never miss a good chance to shut up."
--Anon

"You can stand tall without standing on some one. You can be a victor without having victims."
--Harriet Woods

"The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others."
--Anon

"The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen."
--James Russell Lowell

"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present."
--Anon.

"I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words."
--Gloria Steinen

"Adversity introduces a man to himself."
--Anon

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
--Albert Canus

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"It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are."
--Publius Syrus

"What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth."
--Jewish Proverb

"Goals are dreams with deadlines."
--Diane Scharf Hunt

"Being busy and being productive are not necessarily related."
--Brian Koslow

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
--Seneca

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
--Mark Twain

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
--Carl Jung

"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness."
--Margaret Millar

"...everything that can be said can be said clearly."
--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
--Sally Field

"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not."
--Anon

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"Don't bother to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
--William Faulkner

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

"An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything."
--Lynn Johnston

"A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow."
--General George Patton

"Know your limits but never stop trying to exceed them."
--Anon.

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