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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”
Dr. Seuss
“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
William Shakespeare
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
— John D. Rockefeller Jr.
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Jung
“True is it that we have seen better days.”
— Lowell Medhurst
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Maya Angelou
“Would you rather live your life according to the approval of others or aligned with your truth and your dreams?”
Robin Sharma
“90% of the game is half mental.”
Yogi Berra
“Wherever you are, be there totally.”
Eckhart Tolle
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
William Arthur Ward
“Justice is truth in action.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
Søren Kierkegaard
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Nelson Mandela
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
— W.B. Yeats
“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
— Timothy Leary
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
Aristotle
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
Maya Angelou
“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in time of misery.”
— Dante Alighieri
“He who violates another's honor loses his own.”
Publilius Syrus
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
— Karl Barth
“The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave.”
Ronald Reagan
“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
Winston Churchill
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
— Saint Augustine

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