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“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
John Wooden
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo
“No matter how much preparation we do, in the real tests of our lives, we'll be in unfamiliar terrain.”
Josh Waitzkin
“It's just a bad day, not a bad life.”
Mary Engelbreit
“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”
Rumi
“If you done it, it ain't bragging.”
Walt Whitman
“The only way round is through.”
Robert Frost
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
Thomas Sowell
“When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.”
George Carlin
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”
Elbert Hubbard
“I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.”
Nelson Mandela
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“When people gain the right knowledge, in such a way that they understand it completely, and then have the opportunity for effective instruction to apply what they comprehend then like magic, they can see the fruits of their efforts in the form of changes that serve us feedback in their lives.”
— Dr. Joe Dispenza
“Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.”
Zen Proverb
“He who leaves the game wins it.”
Nicolas Chamfort
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
Zen Proverb
“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
Maya Angelou
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
Charles Dickens

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