"A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent."  -William Blake (1757-1828)-

"Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to
give, such will cease to love."
-Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)-

"A sense of humor can help you over look the unattractive,
tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the
unbearable."
-Moshe Waldoks-

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
-Henry David Thoreau-

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
-Goethe-

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you
are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing."
-Will Rogers (1879-1935)-

"You can learn from people, and educate others, but the
only one you can change is yourself."
-Dan D. Limon-

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love."
-Sophocles-

"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.  If we are in each others dream, we can be together all the time."
-Hobbes-

"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional."
-Roger Crawford-

"We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it,
ripped things from it, buried things in it  . . . That does not
fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a
 month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago."    
-Rose Elizabeth Bird-

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the
same."
-Elbert Hubbard-

"Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men."
-Demosthenes (B.C. 384-322)-

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."
-Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)-

"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation,
you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude,
a feeling that nurtures the soul."
-Rabbi Harold Kushner-

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
-John Wooden-
 
"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."
-Publilius Syrus (fl. B.C. 42)-

"My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream
about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity.
Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage - my life is
a study of that."
-Donald Trump-

"The greatest power is often simple patience."
-E. Joseph Cossman-

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only
we seek them with our eyes open."
-Jawaharlal Nehru-

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything
you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
- Jack Canfield-

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things
brought together."
-Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)-

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
-Walter Bagehot (1826-1977)-

"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."
-Bernard M. Baruch(1870-1965)-

"First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way."
-Harry A. Overstreet-

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
-Henry Ford-

"I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery-

"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."
-Robert H. Schuller-

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
-Mahatma Gandhi-

"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."
-Maxwell Maltz-

"You and I are not separate. It's just an illusion wrought by the magical lens of perception."
-Michael Jackson-

"If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you."
-Francois LaRochefoucauld (1613-1680)-

"All people have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory."
-motto of the King's Guard in ancient Greece-

"The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health."
-Colton (1780-1832)-

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)-

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)-

"Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. The greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest."
-Lubbock (1834-1913)-

"We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier."
-Landor (1775-1864)-

"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
-Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881)-

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
-George Washington (1732-1799)-

"People say 'I want peace'. If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace."
-Satya Sai Baba-

"The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have."
-Robert Frost (1874-1963)-

"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."
-Bovee (1820-1904)-

"To accuse others for one's misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows one's education is complete."
-Epictetus-

"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."
-Deepak Chopra-

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
-Leo Tolstoy-

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
-Carl W. Buechner-

"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."
-Friedrich Nietzsche-

"Miracles are not contrary to nature; only to what we know about nature." -St. Augustine-

"The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice." -Plato (B.C. 427?-347?)-

"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
-Simone Weil (1910-1943)-

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
-James Baldwin (1924-1987)-

"You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it."
-William Gilbert (1836-1911)-

"There's always a rainbow at the end of every rain."
-Prince (1958-1993)-

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)-

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness - all foes to real understanding. Likewise, tolerance or broad, wholesome charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in our little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
-Mark Twain (1835-1910)-

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope."
-Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)-

"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."-Marian Anderson-

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
-Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)-

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
-Thomas Jefferson-

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
-Delores Ibarruri (1895-1989)-

"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn."
-John Wesley (1703-1791)-

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
-Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845)-

"Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime-and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis."
-Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)-

"Drunkenness . . . is temporary suicide."
-Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)-

"Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God."
-Jean Anouilh (1910-87)-

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-94)-

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
-Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)-

"We are one, after all, you and I; together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-

"I shall pass through this life but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again."
-Etienne de Grellet-

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)-

"If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day - go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month -get married.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else."
-Chinese Proverb-

"Sympathy is your pain in my heart."
-Adlai A. Esteb-

"Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for."
-Paramahansa Yogananda-

"Despise no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is no thing that does not have its place." -The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.)-

"When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure For what we think, will come about."
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi-

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
-Franklin (1706-1790)-

"If you ever feel you can't go on, rest assured that you are not alone and that fast changes are arriving."
-Seal-

"Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong."
-Zoroaster (B.C. 628?-551?)-

"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being.
Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river.
But those who when they know the law follow the path of the
law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the
realm of death."
-The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)-

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
-Confucius (B.C. 551-479)-

"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."
-Confucius (B.C. 551-479)-

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius (B.C. 551-479)-

"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."
-Bernard Edmonds-

"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." -Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)-

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
-Arthur C. Clarke-

"Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?"
-Robert F. Kennedy-

"A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
-John Milton-

"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of
the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do,
I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."
-Golda Meir-

"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
-Golda Meir-

"Money can help you to get medicines
but not health.
Money can help you to get soft pillows,
but not sound sleep.
Money can help you to get material comforts,
but not eternal bliss.
Money can help you to get ornaments,
but not beauty.
Money will help you to get an electric earphone,
but not natural hearing.
Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;
you will have everything."
-Sivananda-

"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." -Grace Hansen-

"The truth is always the strongest argument."
-Sophocles (496-406 B.C.)-

"A lie never lives to be old."
-Sophocles (496-406 B.C.)-
"It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced."
-Sophocles (496-406 B.C.)-

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." -Booker T. Washington-

"Her death takes place in the shadow of new life, she's not really dead if we find a way to remember her."
-Star Trek-

"I want to describe myself, not be described by others."
-Johnnie Cochran-

"I wept not, so to stone within I grew."
-Dante Alighieri-

"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne-

"I Am The Victor, Not The Victim."
-Sean Howell-

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake." -
-Marie Beyon Ray-

"It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-Anais Nin-

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."
-Anais Nin-

"The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection."
-Socrates-

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
-Gilbert Keith "G.K." Chesterton (1874-1936)-

"The angels fly, because they take themselves lightly."
-Gilbert Keith "G.K." Chesterton (1874-1936)-

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."
-Helen Keller-

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
-Helen Keller-

"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
-Alfred Adler (1870-1937)-

"It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring."
-Alfred Adler (1870-1937)-

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."
-Peter Marshall-

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."
-Charlie "Tremendous" Jones-

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
-Ingrid Bergman-

"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."
-Ingrid Bergman-

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
-Burke(1729-1797)-

"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning."
-Barbara Sher-

"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
-Albert Camus-

"Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive."
-Jesse Jackson-

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