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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
— Buddha
“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ”
— George Washington
“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”
— Plato
“Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.”
— Lolly Daskal
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
— Walter Elliot
“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
— Bruce Lee
“Turn your wounds into wisdom. ”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ”
— Oscar Wilde
“Great acts are made up of small deeds.”
— Lao Tzu
“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”
— Colin Powell
“The only way around is through.”
— Robert Frost
“Every moment of one's existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less.”
— Norman Mailer
“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”
— Steve Maraboli
“Who you are is defined by what you're willing to struggle for.”
— Mark Manson
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
— Linus Torvalds
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
— Francis Bacon
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
— Aristotle
“Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”
— Alexander Pope
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”
— Mark Twain
“The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”
— Amelia Earhart
“All children are born pure nonsense, and remain so until they get to be writers”
— Samuel Butler
“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”
— James Allen

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