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“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
Epictetus
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Rumi
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice. ”
Henry Ford
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Henry Ford
“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”
— Corrie Ten Boom
“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”
Eckhart Tolle
“When we allow negative messages to fester in our head, they take on a life of their own.”
Lolly Daskal
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”
Christopher Reeve
“Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.”
Thomas Paine
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
Epictetus
“You can make a difference.”
— John Walsh
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Isaac Asimov
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
William Blake
“One must not be afraid of new ideas, no matter the source. And we must never fear the truth, even when it pains us.”
— Al-Kindi
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered.”
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
Winston Churchill
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”
Tom Hanks
“Don't let the silly little dramas of each day get you down. For you are here to do great things.”
Ralph Marston
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius
“All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.”
Kabir
“Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.”
— Jacqueline Woodson
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Rohn

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