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“Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! ”
“Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.”
“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.”
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. ”
“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.'”
“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. ”
“When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.”
“Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
“You are the sky. Everything else - it's just the weather.”
“Tell me and I forget; teach me and I may remember; involve me and I learn.”
“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”
“Kindness can become contagious in leaps and bounds.”
“Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?”
“There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.”
“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”
“You cannot change your destination overnight but you can change your direction overnight.”
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
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