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When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part without fruits with joy.
* Rabindranath Tagore

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
* Don Herold

Never mistake activity for achievement.
* John Wooden

The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.
* Germaine de Stael

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
* James Russell Lowell

The surest way to happiness is to lose yourself in a cause greater than yourself.
* Unknown

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow enormous benefits upon the world.
* Robert Louis Stevenson

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
* Rabindranath Tagore

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.
* Helen Keller

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If you can dream it, you can do it.
* Walt Disney

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
* Benjamin Franklin

Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul…
* Martin Luther

Be true when you are tempted, be true when you don’t want to be, be true when it means standing alone from the rest of the world.
* Ruth B. Wright

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
* James Harvey Robinson

A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.
* M. C. Richards

A helping word to one in trouble is like a switch in a railroad track… an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
* Henry Ward Beecher

So it’s probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.
* Chris LeDoux

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
* Rabindranath Tagore

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it is possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
* Samuel Johnson

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A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
* Smiley Blanton

Every dawn signs a new contract with existence.
* Henri-Frederic Amiel

The company of the distinguished, fetches respect even to the unworthy. Because of its association with flowers (in a garland), the thread is also worn on head.
* Subhashita Manjari

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
* Sophocles

I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
* John Wooden

It may be possible to forcibly snatch a jewel from the midst of powerful jaws of a crocodile. It may also be possible to cross a raging sea swimming across its high-running violent waves. One may even wear a furious snake around his head as if it is a garland of flowers. But it is impossible to win over a conceited fool!
* Subhashita Manjari

No one has yet calculated how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up with their courage.
* Athenaeus

Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
* Rabindranath Tagore

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn’t something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.
* George Matthew Adams

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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.
* Dee Hock

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
* Benjamin Franklin

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
* Helen Keller

Between Yes and No, lies mediocracy.
* Ligia Kasten

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
* Samuel Johnson

Never do anything which you would not wish to do during the last hour of your life.
* Dada J. P. Vaswani

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.
* C.P. Snow

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: He that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
* Charles Caleb Colton

We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
* Rene Descartes

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
* Socrates

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A friend is there before you know it, to lend a hand before you ask it, and give you love just when you need it most.
* Unknown

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
* Isaac Bashevis Singer

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
* Orison Swett Marden

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world, we must do something.
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
* Helen Keller

The spirit of man communes with Heaven; the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man. Is the distance between Heaven and man very great?
* Hung Tzu-ch’eng

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
* Armand Hammer

Eventually, we all need to be willing to face the deepest, darkest beliefs we have about ourselves. Only in this way can we come to know that they are only beliefs, and not the truth about who we are.
* Ezra Bayda

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
* Benjamin Jowett

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The essense of a warrior is to build an indomitable spirit
and an iron will; to believe you cannot fail in doing anything.
* Miyamoto Musashi

The problem is not that there are problems.
The problem is in expecting otherwise and
thinking that having problems is a problem.
* Theodore Rubin

Life is a pure flame, and
we live by an invisible sun within us.
* Thomas Browne

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit,
the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter,
body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
* Swami Vivekananda

The worst bankrupt is the man who has lost his enthusiasm.
Let a man lose everything in the world but
his enthusiasm and will come through again to success.
* H. W. Arnold

Leadership usually gravitates to person who can say what he thinks.
* Anonymous

If everything seems under control,
you’re just not going fast enough.
* Mario Gabriele Andretti

The place to improve the world is first
in one’s own heart and head and hands.
* Robert M. Pirsig

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
* Martin Farquhar Tupper

Carry on, no matter what happens.
Hide your sorrows under a smile and carry on.
* Anonymous

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Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy
connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life,
and be directed in all thy ways.
* Akhenaton

As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of
wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
* Bhagavadgita

If we are to progress we must go forwards,
not backwards. We can look backwards,
we can learn from backwards, but we must not go backwards.
* Unknown

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
* Abraham Lincoln

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
* Cynthia Ozick

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-
power of the understanding.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed.
We came to rule; we are being ruled.
We came to work; we are being worked.
All the time, we find that.
And this comes into every detail of our life.
* Swami Vivekananda

Don’t carry a grudge. While you’re carrying the grudge the other guy’s out dancing.
* Buddy Hackett

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
* Walter Bagehot

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
* Flora Whittemore

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I’ve learned one thing during my time on the soccer fields:
It’s amazing how fast you can run
And the things you can do when you have a goal in mind.
It applies to the rest of my life, too.
* Jeremy Monnin

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
* Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than
the sudden flash of insight that leaves you
a changed person not only changed, but for the better.
* Arthur Gordon

We come to love not by finding a perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
* Sam Keen Christine

The price of the democratic way of life is
a growing appreciation of people’s differences,
not merely as tolerable, but as
the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.
* Jerome Nathanson

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.
* Aristotle

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take
care of themselves.
* Lord Chesterfield

There’s no limit to what a man can achieve,
if he doesn’t care who gets the credit.
* J. Laing Burns, Jr.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
* Edmund Hillary

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous
breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
* Bertrand Russell

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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
the mind can achieve.
* Napoleon Hill

Freedom from the desire for an answer
is essential to the understanding of a problem.
* Jiddu Krishnamurti

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal
knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of
gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
* Gouthama Buddha

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants
* Epicurus

A good intention clothes itself with power.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson

To know a truth well,
one must have fought it out.
* Novalis

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
* Elbert Hubbard

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
* Alfred Tennyson

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes?
I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
* Epictetus

The wise learn from the experience of others,
and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
* Eric Hoffer

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A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
* Robert Louis Stevenson

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
* Theodore Roosevelt

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
* J. K. Rowling

The way of devotion is not different from
the way of knowledge, or Jnana. When intelligence matures and
lodges securely in the mind it becomes wisdom. When wisdom is
integrated with life and becomes action it becomes Bhakti.
Knowledge when it becomes fully mature is Bhakti.
To believe that Jnana and Bhakti, knowledge and
devotion, are different from each other is ignorance.
* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time.
Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
* Swami Vivekananda

People are okay,
it is their behavior that’s a problem sometimes.
* Ken Blanchard

Time is really the only capital that any human being has,
and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.
* Thomas Alva Edison

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.
* Cicero

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people,
but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
* John Buchan

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke.
He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied
with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
* I Ching

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