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“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
“Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! ”
— St. Jerome
“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”
— Eric Hoffer
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. ”
— Seneca
“I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimize the number of regrets I have.'”
— Jeff Bezos
“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
— Mae West
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
— Wayne Gretzky
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. ”
— Oprah Winfrey
“When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.”
— Bob Dylan
“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“You are the sky. Everything else - it's just the weather.”
— Pema Chodron
“Tell me and I forget; teach me and I may remember; involve me and I learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”
— Buddha
“Kindness can become contagious in leaps and bounds.”
— Kahlil Gibran

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