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“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”
Helen Keller
“Knowledge comes by taking things apart, but wisdom comes by putting things together.”
— John A. Morrison
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
“The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.”
Carl Sandburg
“Trust your instincts: my first reaction is almost invariably the right one. ”
Estee Lauder
“Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.”
— David Cameron
“You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.”
Charlie Munger
“If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.”
Stephen Hawking
“If you're more interested in what you have achieved, or what you're financial position enables you to do than that thing that got those things, you're screwed.”
— Jerry Seinfeld
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Life is a constant series of opportunities.”
Ming-Dao Deng
“Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.”
Tony Robbins
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
George Eliot
“Don't let them drag you down by rumors. Just go with what you believe in.”
Michael Jordan
“We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity life would be very boring.”
— Catherine Pulsifer
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Don't blame others. it won't make you a better person.”
Lolly Daskal
“You become stronger with every problem you face and every obstacle you overcome.”
Celestine Chua
“A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”
Charles Dickens
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
Napoleon Hill
“People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.”
Deepak Chopra
“Once you choose hope, anything's possible.”
Christopher Reeve
“Your mind will make you rich or poor, depending on the use you put to it.”
Brian Tracy
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
— Warren Bennis

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