"There are no accidents... there is only some
purpose that we haven't yet understood."
— Deepak Chopra

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
--Vince Lombardi

They conquer who believe they can.
--John Dryden

"Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes."
– Washington Irving

"The main cause for failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want at the moment."
- Unknown

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to
live in a circle of those who are. C.S. Lewis

"When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have."
– Stephen Hawking

"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
- Stephen Covey

"A primary method for gaining a mind full of
peace is to practice emptying the mind."
— Napoleon Hill

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach for anything better. Florence Nightingale

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"It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts."
– Oscar Levant

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Helen Keller

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
— Norman Vincent Peale

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
- Mark Twain

You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs

"Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people."
- Mother Teresa

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
– John Steinbeck

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"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within."
- Helen Keller

"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
– Isaac Asimov

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, & along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes & return to us as results. Herman Melville

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."
- Leo Buscaglia

"The less you open your heart to others,
the more your heart suffers."
— Deepak Chopra

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart...” Paul the Apostle Colossians 3:23

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses & disappointments, but let us have patience & we soon shall see them in their proper figures. Joseph Addison

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"It's not what you leave to your children, it's what you leave in your children."
- Unknown

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
– William Penn

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in
the mind through repetition of thought."
— Napoleon Hill

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. . . we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives. Big Book p86

“It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.” Rita Levi-Montalcini

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
– Igor Stravinsky

"If you put off everything till you're sure of it,
you'll never get anything done."
— Norman Vincent Peale

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"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."
- Dalai Lama

"My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency…become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'" Rudolph Giuliani

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge? Cory Booker

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill

"There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, 'We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.'"
– Jim Collins

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."
- Sigmund Freud

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive."
- Orlando A. Battista

"You must find the place inside yourself
where nothing is impossible."
— Deepak Chopra

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"Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
- Unknown

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin & quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time. Chögyam Trungpa

"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and take without forgetting."
- Liz Bebesco

"Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture."
– Anandibai Joshee

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller

"Imagination is the true magic carpet."
— Norman Vincent Peale

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
– Booker T. Washington

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A road well begun is the battle half won. The important thing is to make a beginning and get under way. Soren Kierkegaard

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."
- Malcolm Forbes

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
– William Connor Magee

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
- William Arthur Ward

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"Do not fear death, fear the unlived life."
- Natalie Babbitt

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less & less important whether I am afraid. Audre Lorde

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"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore… they had better aim at something high."
— Henry David Thoreau

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer

"The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world."
– Bertie Charles Forbes

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"Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs."
- Michael Levine

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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance. Marian Wright Edelman

"Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them."
- Richard Carlson

"Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish."
– William Allen White

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"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."
- Mason Cooley

"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
– Jean Kerr

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The first rule is, to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. Marcus Aurelius

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
- Freya Stark

"When thinking won't cure fear, action will."
– William Clement Stone

"Constant dripping hollows out a stone."
- Lucretius

"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
– Doris Lessing

"The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence."
– Bruce Springsteen

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan

"The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost