ANON

If we make the most of opportunities, opportunities will make the most of us.

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HELEN KELLER

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

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LAO-TZU

Stop trying to leave and you will arrive
Stop seeking and you will see
Stop running away and you will be found

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DON MIGUEL RUIZ

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do.

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ALEXANDRA STODDARD

What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.

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BERNARD- PAUL HEROUX

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.

BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire nothing for yourself which you do not desire for others.

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H. STEIN

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.

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ANON

Friends are flowers in the garden of life.

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MAX L. FORMAN

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.

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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

JOHN ANDREW HOLMES

There is no better exercise than the heart reaching down and lifting people up.

MARK TWAIN

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

ANON

Friendship is a living thing that lasts as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

MAYA ANGELOU

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

EPICURUS

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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KATHERINE MANSEFIELD

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Old Tennessee Saying

He that doesn't tooteth his own trumpet, doesn't get his trumpet tooted.

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VICTOR HUGO

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Learn from yesterday, love for today and hope for tomorrow

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ALEXANDRA SMITH

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it.

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SAMUEL JOHNSON

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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Spanish Proverb

He who gossips with you will also gossip about you.

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LAO-TZU

Whether you are a gem in the royal court or a stone on a common path, if you accept your part with humility the power of the universe will be yours.

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MOTHER TERESA

Life is a promise - fulfill it.

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ANON

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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JONATHAN WINTERS

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.

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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
and today is a gift;
that’s why they call it the present.

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HOWARD SCHUTZ

Dream more than others think practical
Expect more than others think possible

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