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“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
— Ayn Rand
“He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.”
— Lao Tzu
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
— Thomas Sowell
“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.”
— Carl Sandburg
“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
— Carl Jung
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
— Albert Einstein
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ”
— Confucius
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
— Robert Jordan
“For ever and a day.”
— Vito Altenwerth
“Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.”
— Barack Obama
“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.”
— Unknown
“Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”
— Bradley Whitford
“Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.”
— G.I. Gurdjieff
“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
— John Wooden
“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”
— Virgil
“Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.”
— Stephen Covey
“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
— Nicolas Chamfort
“If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there.”
— Deepak Chopra
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.”
— Pema Chodron

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