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Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
- Ken Blanchard

What we see depends mainly on
what we look for.
- John Lubbock

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mahatma Gandhi

One cannot help being old,
but one can resist being aged.
- Lord Samuel

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Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.
- Spanish Proverb

Take care of your gift.
- Jean Shelton

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.
- James Leo Herlihy

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise- - then you will discover the fullness of your life.
- Brother David Steindl- Rast

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
- George Eliot

A woman is like a tea bag:  you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
- Nancy Reagan

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

The question for the child is not "Do I want to be good?" but "Whom do I want to be like?"
- Bruno Bettelheim

One must care about a world one will never see.
- Bertrand Russell

Work and play are words used to describe the ame thing under differing conditions.
- Mark Twain

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
- James Dent

Making the decision to have a child- - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone

Take rest;
a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
- Ovid

Here are the two best prayers I know:  'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.'
- Anne Lamott

There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.
- Zora Neale Hurston

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- G.K. Chesterton

The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.
- Roger Houseden

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
- Maya Angelou

The future enters into us, in order to transform us, long before it happens.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
- John Stuart Mill

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may grow.
- Louise Driscoll

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds along rocks.
- Charlotte Bronte

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- Henri Bergson

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm

You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take.
- Wayne Gretzky

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Great souls are not those which have less passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

We can do no great things - - only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
- Anonymous

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
- Albert Schweitzer

Every man has three characters:  that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
- Alphonse Karr

He who wants to expand the field of happiness, let him lay the foundation of it on the bottom of his heart.
- Tao saying

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
- Lucy Larcom

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
- Richard L Evans

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills

In our journey towards God, we proceed like those small birds whose flight is in loops. They always seem to be about to drop, but the drop in their flight seems to urge them forward.
- Gerard W. Hughes

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lilly Tomlin

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today.
- Sydney Smith

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong

All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.
- Saint Vincent de Paul

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
- William Inge

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
- Edgar J. Mohn

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
- Comte de Buffon

Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.
- Henry S. Haskins

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill

Unless you enter the tiger's den, you cannot take the cubs.
- Japanese proverb

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
- Bruce Crampton

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page.
- Saint Augustine

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.
- Elvis Presley

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
- Carl Rogers

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
- William Inge

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.
- C.S. Lewis

It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
- Aesop

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but moments.
- Rose Kennedy

What is a friend? A single soul shared by two people.
- Aristotle

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
- Corita Kent

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
- George Eliot

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.
- Horace Greeley

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
- Tao Te Ching

Snowflakes are nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
- Vesta M. Kelly

Nobody sees a flower, really- - it is so small we haven't time, and to see takes time.
- Georgia O'Keefe

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
- Hodding Carter

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness:  these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.
- F.W. Robertson

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
- John Ruskin

Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.
- J.P. Greaves

A single sunbeamis enough to drive away many shadows.
- St. Francis of Assisi

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
- Mark Twain

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us...Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.
- Mother Teresa

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.
- Randolph Bourne

Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.
- Confucius

If God brings you to it, God will bring you through it.
- Unknown

Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow! Grow!"
- The Talmud

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Harold Whitman

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
- Johannes A. Gaertner

When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.
- Pema Chodron

To describe happiness is to diminish it.
- Henri Stendhal

Today is yesterday's pupil.
- Thomas Fuller

"Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly, "one must also have freedom, sunshine, and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Anderson

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
- Albert Schweitzer

Self- trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.
- William Feather

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
- Nelson Mandela

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Selfishness may be sweet only for oneself, but no harmony of the whole can come from it.
- Tenrikyo Osashizu

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
- Nicholas Murray Butler

Love consists in looking together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint- Exupery

He who wants to expand the field of happiness, let him lay the foundation of it on the bottom of his heart.
- Tao saying

No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living.
- Marie Beynon Ray

A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to life.
- Celia Luce

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.
- Albert Schweitzer

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sorrow shared is half a sorrow, a joy shared is twice a joy.
- Unknown

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
- Mortimer J. Adler

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
- Dennis Wholey

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley

We can do no great things - - only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.
- Syrus

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
- Basil King

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
- Thomas Szasz

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
- Robert M. Pirsig

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path without brightening our own.
- Ben Sweetland

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln

Man can live for about forty days without food, and about three days without water, about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.
- Hal Lindsey

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
- Ronald Reagan

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

I am happy and content because I think I am.
- Alain- Rene Lesage

Modern man thinks he loses something- - time- - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- - except kill it.
- Erich Fromm

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.
- Anonymous

Self- pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- Vincent Van Gogh

We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust.
- Madame de Choiseul

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
- Cicero

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.
- William Feather

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
- R.E. Shay

Why can't life's problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything?
- A.C. Jolly

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
- Alexis Carrel

If you are going through hell...keep going.
- Winston Churchill

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
- Yiddish proverb

Friendship is a promise of future loyalty, loyalty no matter what comes. Promises are the bricks of life and trust is the mortar.
- Stephen Carter,
"The Emperor of Ocean Park"

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
- Helen Walton

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.
- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.
- Bishop Westcott

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
- Oliver Goldsmith

We have not come into the world to be a number; we have been created for a purpose, for great things:  To love and be loved.
- Mother Teresa

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway

If one is without kindness, how can one be called a human being?
- Sarada Devi

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.
- Unknown

It's never the end of the world. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles M. Schultz

It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.
- Abraham Maslow

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
- Arthur H. Prince

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
- Maurice Setter

Sometimes the seeds of happiness are sown in darkness.
- Unknown

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
- Henry Miller

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
- May Sarton

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
- Helen Hayes

So- called aging is not the deterioration of life, but the deterioration of our faith, our enthusiasm, our will to progress.
- Connie Fillmore

Doubt limits you from what is already yours, but faith unlocks the door allowing you to walk in and receive it.
- Jeannette Tyson Gregory

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
- Madeleine L'Engle

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
- Confucius

Happiness is the delicate balance between what one is and what one has.
- F. H. Denison

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are.
- Mark McGinnis

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.
- Bertha von Suttner

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work.
- Anna Quindlen

One can acquire everything in solitude- - except character.
- Henri Stendhal

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
- B.C. Forbes

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
- William S. Halsey

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
- Henry Ford

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
- Kahlil Gibran

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford

In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.
- R.H. Grenville

Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
- Lillian Smith

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
- R.E. Shay

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.
- Richard Nelson

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
- C.S. Lewis

Don't solve your problems, dissolve your problems - so that they should not recur again.
- Yogi Bhajan

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
- Ann Landers

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our lives is toward happiness.
- Dalai Lama

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
- George MacDonald

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
- Lois McMaster Bujold

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

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
- Colette

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
- Helen Keller

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
- Douglas Jerrould

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
- Carl Sandburg

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
- Frank A. Clark

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Kahlil Gibran

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.
- Elvis Presley

The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
- The Hausa of Nigeria

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
- Agatha Christie

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
- Sydney Smith

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.
- Sir John Templeton

Silent gratitude isn?t much good to anyone.
- Gladys Browyn Stern

If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
- Stephen King

What you do may seem insignificant, but it's important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

You don't just luck into things...You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
- Barbara Bush

There are men who hate me;
Let me love them.
There are men I have wronged;
Let them forgive me.
- Saying of the Dinka Tribe

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
- Oscar Wilde

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Unknown

Each age has deemed the new- born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
- Sir Walter Scott

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.
- Gerard Groote

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
- William James

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
- Ugo Betti

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through the fabric of illusion.
- Ansel Adams

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
- Lord Byron

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
- Robert Hillyer

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
- Maimonides

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.
- Anonymous

When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
- Vietnamese saying

Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
- Dalai Lama

In pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.
- R.H. Grenville

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
- French Proverb

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?
- Elvis Presley

Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
- Henry David Thoreau

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost

Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day.
- Herman Hesse

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.
- W. Clement Stone

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.
- Benjamin Franklin

Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set on fire.
- George Matthew Adams

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
- Elvis Presley

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Chinese Proverb

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost

Goodness is love in action, love with its hand to the plow.
- James Hamilton

Ring out the old, ring in the new.
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Lord Tennyson

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint- Exupery

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.
- John Marks Templeton

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
- Robert M. Pirsig

Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me, and I'll understand.
- Chinese Proverb

Always remember:  Joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. It is vital.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
- William Cobbett

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Unknown

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
- Meister Eckhart

Choices are the hinges of destiny.
- Edwin Markham

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