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“Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.”
Heraclitus
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”
John Muir
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
George Eliot
“To earn more you must learn more.”
Brian Tracy
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
Jack Kerouac
“Respect is earned by effort not age, all things age without effort.”
C. Sean McGee
“The happiness and greatness, the rank and station, the pleasure and peace, of an individual have never consistent in his personal wealth, but rather in his excellent character, his high resolve, the breadth of his learning, and his ability to solve difficult problems.”
Abdu'l-Baha
“In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.”
Dalai Lama
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
Plato
“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”
Dogen
“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.”
Napoleon Hill
“Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.”
John Wooden
“Anyone telling you it's pointless to share your perspective is sharing their perspective.”
Jack Butcher
“At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.”
Bodhidharma
“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.”
Steve Jobs
“Leadership is solving problems”
Colin Powell
“The best way to find yourself is to get lost in the process of discovering what you value most in life.”
— Jessica Lanyado
“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
Voltaire
“可得解脱处,唯山水间和神佛前。”
— IKON
“You have the ability, now apply yourself.”
Benjamin Mays
“You can be comfortable or courageous, but you cannot be both.”
— Anonymous
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
Buddha

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