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“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.”
— Deepak Chopra
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”
— Jodi Picoult
“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”
— Muhammad Ali
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
— Anne Frank
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The greatness of a society can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Poverty and hardship are created by false thinking.”
— Bodhidharma
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams.”
— Christopher Columbus
“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
— Lord Byron
“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”
— Helen Keller
“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best mind-altering drug is the truth.”
— Lily Tomlin
“It's wise to tell the truth. It's even wiser to tell it kindly.”
— Maxime Lagace
“Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.”
— Jim Rohn
“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”
— Aristotle
“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“There's more to life than being a passenger.”
— Amelia Earhart
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill
“Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.”
— Francis Bacon
“I do not seek. I find.”
— Pablo Picasso

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