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One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
One life is worth no more or less than any other
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
When you know better you do better.
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
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.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
In spite of everything life is not without hope.
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Greatness doesn’t come from what you do, but from who you are.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
