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“The best fighter is never angry.”
Lao Tzu
“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
Jim Rohn
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
George Bernard Shaw
“You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.”
— Bill Withers
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
Michael Jordan
“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. ”
Paramahansa Yogananda
“You want to live but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying and tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”
Seneca
“Because tomorrow, the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide may bring.”
— Chuck Noland
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
Lao Tzu
“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
— Tom Wilson
“You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.”
Dalai Lama
“Who is wise in love, love most, say least.”
Alfred Tennyson
“Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot.”
Wayne Gretzky
“Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.”
Peter Drucker
“Faith is a state of openness or trust.”
Alan Watts
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Only work half a day. It doesn't matter which half you work -- the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.”
— Kemmons Wilson
“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”
Karl Marx
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
Helen Keller
“Piglet lived in the Hundred Acre Wood, where he was surrounded by good things, yet still found something to be grateful for.”
A.A. Milne
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
Socrates
“Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.”
— Sharon Draper
“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
Leonardo da Vinci

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