What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
EMILE CHARTIER

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
MICHAEL JORDAN

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
CATHERINE AIRD

The most important thing in life is to decide what’s most important.
UNKNOWN

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
MARGARET MEAD

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
JOHN ANDREW HOLMES

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

It’s not what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.
WILL ROGERS

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of what you think, and everything you do, is for your self, and there isn't one.
CHINESE SAGE, WU WEI WU

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

All you have to do to change your world is change the way you look at it.
UNKNOWN

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
HELEN KELLER

Duty makes us do things well. Love makes us do things beautifully.
PHILIP BROOKS

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMES

Develop oneself ~Manage one’s own family ~ Rule the country ~ Bring peace to the World.
CHINESE TEACHING

Anything less than a commitment to the important is a commitment to the unimportant.
STEPHEN COVEY

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

If you can't get out of it, get into it.
KAYAKERS' WISDOM

Love is the only channel for a clear communication.
JOHN-ROGER

Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

A boat in the harbor is safe; but that's not what boats are for.
UNKNOWN

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends on the tides of the mind.
ALICE MEYNELL

Make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.
PAUL THE APOSTLE (Philippians 2:2)

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
BRENDAN GILL

Not forgiving is like drinking poison, and waiting for the other guy to die.
UNKNOWN

People sometimes stumble over the truth, but usually they pick themselves up and hurry about their business.
WINSTON CHURCHILL

The spiritual path is easy. It’s the only path that is.
JOHN-ROGER

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. WHITE

Unless we change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
OLD CHINESE PROVERB

We may all have come on separate ships, but we're in the same boat now.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
YOGI BERRA

Would you rather be right or happy?
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
MAHATMA GANDHI

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