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Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?
Frank J. Giblin II

We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein

We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon,
but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have learned from experience that
the greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule
is a person’s conscience.
Harper Lee

Learn to listen.
Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
Frank Tyger

Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek.
English Proverb

Service is what life is all about.
Marian Wright Edelman

Follow your instincts.
That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting,
and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart
don’t know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia Earhart

If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you’ll get the best.
Begin to live as you wish to live.
Unknown

Love and you shall be loved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people live and die
with their music still unplayed.
They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash

Some people are moulded by their admirations,
others by their hostilities.
Elizabeth Bowen

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp
what has happened to your life.
Wilma Rudolph

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity,
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Ghandi

I was always looking outside myself for
strength and confidence but it comes from within.
It is there all the time.
Anna Freud

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank

A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber

Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters

We don’t see things as they are,
we see them as we are.
Anais Nin

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie

I wasn’t afraid to fail.
Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
Helen Keller

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.
Thomas Sprat

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't be anyone's slogan ~
for you are poetry.
Sandra Bullock in 28 Days
{ Writer's credit: Susannah Grant }

Every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around.
Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky
{ Writer's credit: Cameron Crowe }

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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