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“Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.”
Helen Keller
“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.”
Morihei Ueshiba
“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”
Eric Hoffer
“Distant water does not put out a nearby fire.”
Chinese Proverb
“Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind or permit others to set up for you.”
Og Mandino
“A lot of the best ideas seem silly or bad initially—you want an idea at the intersection of “seems like bad idea” and “is good idea”.”
— Sam Altman
“Life itself is a quotation.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages. ”
George Washington
“Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.”
Barack Obama
“A person hears only what they understand.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is obedience to the principals for which government is supposed to stand.”
Howard Zinn
“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.”
— Julius Caesar
“Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.”
Anne Wilson Schaef
“An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.”
Herbert Hoover
“We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.”
Barack Obama
“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.”
Les Brown
“Freedom itself demands discomfort.”
Mark Manson
“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'”
Steven Wright
“I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Never trust he who trusts everyone.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff.”
Kamal Ravikant
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
Theodore Roosevelt

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