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Laozi (Lao Tzu): “Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.”

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Gloria Steinem: “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

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Willa Cather: “That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson: “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

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Kalidasa: “Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!”

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Colin Wilson: “When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by the world, but by a million possible worlds.”

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Golda Meir: “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. ”

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Anne Frank: “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

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Ambrose Bierce: “Egotist, noun. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.”

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Laozi (Lao Tzu): “Those who know are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: “If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

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Theodore Roosevelt: “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” more

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” more

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Desiderius Erasmus: “The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”

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Theodore Roosevelt: “Do what you can with what you have where you are.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

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Anatole France: “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Skill to do comes of doing.”

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James Russell Lowell: “Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

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Seth Godin: “Greatness is frightening. With it comes responsibility.”

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Socrates: “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.”

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Deborah Tannen: “Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.”

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Stephen Covey: “Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.”

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Pablo Picasso: “One starts to get young at the age of sixty.”

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