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"People only see what they are prepared to see."
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.”
Harold J. Smith

"A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.”
Harold J. Smith

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."
ALBERT EINSTEIN

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."
ALBERT SCHWEITZER

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
SENECA

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."
LEO BUSCAGLIA

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

“Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.”
ROY T. BENNETT

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
PLATO

"A man without regrets cannot be cured.”
ARISTOTLE

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
MAHATMA GANDHI

“You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“The secret to your success is found in your daily routine.”
JOHN C. MAXWELL

“Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
ROBERTO ASSAGIOLI

“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.”
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

“Fear leads to self-doubt, which is the worst enemy of creativity.”
DAVID OLGIVY

“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.”
MALCOLM FORBES

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
HENRY FORD

"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another."
AESOP

"Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world."
EPICTETUS

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

“Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.”
AMELIA EARHART

“Take care of your body. Its the only place you have to live.”
JIM ROHN

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
PLATO

"The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
EDWARD GIBBON

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
RENÉ DESCARTES

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered."
JEAN INGELOW

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

“Within you is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”
HERMANN HESSE

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

“Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst.”
C.S. LEWIS

“The love of heaven makes one heavenly."
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
CALVIN COOLIDGE

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

''Don't wait. The time will never be just right.''
NAPOLEAN HILL

''Don't wait. The time will never be just right.''
NAPOLEAN HILL

''When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.''
THOMAS PAINE

''People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.''
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

''As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.''
ANDREW CARNEGIE

''No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.''
HERACLITUS

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
OSCAR WILDE

“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
RENE DESCARTES

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."
EDITH WHARTON

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
THOMAS JEFFERSON

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
BENJAMIN JOWETT

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
MICHELANGELO

“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
SENECA

“So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.”
DALE CARNEGIE

"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."
MARCUS AURELIUS

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
MOTHER TERESA

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
L.M. MONTGOMERY

''I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.''
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

“If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.”
TIMOTHY B. TYSON

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

“Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.”
MITCH ALBOM

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
HENRY ADAMS

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
ANNE FRANK

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
AYN RAND

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
MITCH ALBOM

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God.”
ANNE FRANK

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
MITCH ALBOM

“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.”
CARL JUNG

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size."
RONALD REAGAN

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more."
MELODY BEATTIE

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
LAO TZU

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."
EARL WARREN

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike."
JOHN MUIR

"Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, deciseeness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.”
BRIAN ADAMS

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
MARK TWAIN

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”
CHARLES F. KETTERING

"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."
STEVE JOBS

"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
VOLTAIRE

"The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children."
HUGH MACLEOD

"A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there."
WALT DISNEY

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike."
JOHN MUIR

“Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.”
ALEXANDER POPE

"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell."
HARRY S TRUMAN

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
ISAAC ASIMOV

"Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most."
KATHRYN L. NELSON

"But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
MITCH ALBOM

"Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back."
THOMAS SOWELL

"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."
ELBERT HUBBARD

"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need."
VOLTAIRE

"Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow."
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
THOMAS A. EDISON

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
HENRY MILLER

"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."
THOMAS A. EDISON