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“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.”
~ Cheryl Strayed
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“It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.” ~ Neal A. Maxwell
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“Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it’s up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are.” ~ Stedman Graham
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“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same ~ Francesca Reigler
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“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.” ~ Reba McEntire
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“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
~ Zig Ziglar
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“If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” ~ Henny Youngman
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“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
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“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
~ Charles R. Swindoll
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“Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.”
~ Ban Ki-moon
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“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.” ~ Michael Shermer
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“Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.” ~ Paul Ryan
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“I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that’s a perfect world.”
~ CeeLo Green
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“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” ~ Arnold H. Glasow
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“And sure enough even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.”
~ William Faulkner
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“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.” ~ William Ellery Channing
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.” ~ Mark Twain
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“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.” ~ George Jean Nathan
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“It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.” ~ Grover Cleveland
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“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters” ~ Albert Einstein
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“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.” ~ Khaled Hosseini
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“They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
~ Harper Lee
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“Savor life: don’t just breathe it in; exhale the moment to intake the next.”
~ KC Rhoads
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“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.” ~ Anne Lamott
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“Every pot will find its lid.” ~ Yiddish saying on marriage
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“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
~ James A. Michener
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“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” ~ Dale Carnegie
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“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”
~ Christian Morgenstern
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“Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.” ~ Vernon Baker
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
~ Melody Beattie
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“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” ~ George A. Moore
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“Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” — Buddha
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“For many Jews, Rosh Hashanah and teshuvah are annual reminders of the possibility to renew relationships with God and with each other.”
– Rebecca Missel
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“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.” — Marianne Williamson
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“Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.” — Anonymous
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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
~ Immanuel Kant
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“If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.” ~ John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.” ~ Nelson Mandela
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“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
~ Buddha
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“I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.”’
~ Maya Angelou
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“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
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“The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.” ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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“Weather forecast for tonight: dark.” ~ George Carlin
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“Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.” ~ Kin Hubbard
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