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“Attract what you want, not what you fear.”
— Unknown
“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.”
— Lin Yutang
“A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The most important battle is one to conquer yourself.”
— Yanni
“Only when I fall do I get up again.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.”
— Terri Clark
“Education is what survives when learning has been forgotten.”
— John Henry Newman
“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.”
— Ayn Rand
“The only way out is through.”
— Robert Frost
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
— Samuel Butler
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. ”
— Albert Einstein
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
— Socrates
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”
— Mae West
“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
— Muhammad Ali
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”
— Confucius
“Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.”
— Samuel Butler
“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
— Benjamin Mays
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
— Nikki Giovanni

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