We conquer – not in any brilliant fashion – we conquer by continuing.
* George Matheson
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
* Gail Godwin
I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
* Bernard Berenson
Of all possessions, contentedness is the best by far.
* Nagarjuna
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today … What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
* William Allen White
Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect. A year passes and you know you feel differently, but you’re not sure what or why or how, so your mind casts back for something that might give that difference shape: a word, a glance, a touch.
* Barack Obama
Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.
* Charles Sheldon
The covetous man is always poor.
* Claudian
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
* Corita Kent
The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.
* Bill Clinton
Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.
* Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
* Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness.
* Marilyn vos Savant
Love people and use things. Don’t use people and love things.
* Joseph Simmons
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
* Marcus Manilius
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