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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

- Aldous Huxley

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

- Barbara Kingsolver

The golf links lie so near the mill
      That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
      And see the men at play.
            [from "Through the Needle's Eye," 1916]

- Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

"The unfit die -- the fit both live and thrive."
Alas, who says so? They who do survive.

- Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

... without darkness
Nothing comes to birth,
As without light
Nothing flowers.

- May Sarton

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

- Carlos Castaneda

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

- Albert Schweitzer

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

- Douglas Adams

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I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.

- Rudyard Kipling

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

- Honore De Balzac

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

- Baruch Spinoza

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

- Parker J. Palmer

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

- Josh Billings

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

- Orison Swett Marden

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