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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
-C.S. Lewis
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sewn thick with evidences that a truth is not hard to kill, and that a lie well told is immortal.
- Mark Twain
A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.
- Jim Watkins
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.
- William Temple
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God.
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
You don't believe in these things. You're just writing pretty images. Write what you feel. And if you're really honest, you'll be writing for everybody else.
- Oscar Hammerstein (to a 16-year-old Stephen Sondheim)
Thoughts birth images
Images feed appetites
Appetites suggest actions
Actions grow habits
Habits establish lifestyle
Lifestyle develops character
Character determines destiny
Hope has two beautiful daughters: Courage and Anger. Anger at the way things are and Courage to make them the way they ought to be.
- Augustine of Hippo
Suddenness of provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man. It only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.
- C.S. Lewis
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.
- Sydney Smith
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- Bertrand Russell
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
- Angela Monet
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
- Greg Anderson
Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.
- Paulo Coelho
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
- Alfred D'Souza
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm is terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
- Vincent van Gogh
It's useless to rise early and go to bed late, and work your worried fingers to the bone. Don't you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves?
- Psalms 127:3-4
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
- Robert C. Savage
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do…or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- Stephen Krebbet
Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once, and you'll suck forever.
- Brian Wilson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
You can never get enough of what you don't really need.
- Eric Hoffer
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
- Alfred A. Montapert
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius
Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
- Bruce Lee
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
- Confucius
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
- Charles R. Swindoll
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.
- Lloyd Douglas
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong…because sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
- Frank A. Clark
Lucky is what others will call you after your hard work produces results.
- Og Mandino
He that would govern others first should be master of himself.
- Philip Massinger
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.
Treat every person with kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you. Remember that you show compassion to others not because of who they are but because of who you are.
- Andrew T. Somers
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
- C. S. Lewis
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
- G.K. Chesterton
Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
- Plato
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
- John Erskine
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown
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