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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ”
Oscar Wilde
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.”
James Allen
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
— Honore de Balzac
“The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.”
Dalai Lama
“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.”
Sigmund Freud
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Maya Angelou
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
George MacDonald
“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”
Bob Dylan
“High thoughts must have high language.”
Aristophanes
“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”
Osho
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
George Orwell
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
John Muir
“Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.”
W.P. Kinsella
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
Benjamin Franklin
“If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
T.S. Eliot
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
Mother Teresa
“God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”
— Desmond Tutu
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
C.S. Lewis
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”
Robert Collier
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.”
— Dante Alighieri

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