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“Be grateful for what you have now, and nothing should be taken for granted.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
— Pema Chodron
“Those who know how to think need no teachers.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.”
— Steve Irwin
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.”
— Henry Ford
“Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.”
— Dalai Lama
“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.”
— John Carmack
“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
— John F. Kennedy
“I constantly look up words and meanings in search of the perfect variable, method, and class names.”
— David Heinemeier Hansson
“A path is made by walking on it.”
— Zhuangzi
“Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working.”
— Bhagavad Gita
“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.”
— Mark Manson
“Forever is composed of now's.”
— Emily Dickinson
“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.”
— Unknown
“Failure is acceptable. Not trying is a whole different ball park.”
— Michael Jordan
“To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”
— Samuel Butler
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
— T.S. Eliot
“For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
— Carl Jung
“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time.”
— Barack Obama

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