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“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
Dalai Lama
“A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.”
Samuel Butler
“If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.”
Criss Jami
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
Les Brown
“History should be written as philosophy.”
Voltaire
“Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy. ”
George Washington
“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Leo Tolstoy
“If you've made a mistake, it's better just to laugh at it.”
Zen Proverb
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Paulo Coelho
“Nothing like a health problem to turn up the contrast dial for the rest of life.”
Naval Ravikant
“There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing.”
Morihei Ueshiba
“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”
— Eddie Rickenbacher
“The birth of the mind is the death of the senses.”
Dan Millman
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Have a vision. Be demanding.”
Colin Powell
“Invisible things are the only realities.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.”
Nelson Mandela
“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”
— Karl Lagerfeld
“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.”
Carl Sandburg
“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
Malcolm Forbes
“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”
Sigmund Freud
“Leadership starts at the top.”
Morgan Wootten
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
— Aesop

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