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Nelson Mandela
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.

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Bernard Malamud
The great thing about writing : stay with it... Ultimately, you teach yourself something very important about yourself..

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Franz Kafka
Writing (is) a form of prayer.

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John Selden
Syllabes govern the world.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing should be the settlement of dew on a leaf.

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Anais Nin
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

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Comte de Buffon
Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

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Seneca
While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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Epictetus
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

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Japanese proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.

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Arthur Miller
Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.

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Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

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Woodrow T. Wilson
Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days until they bring them to sunshine and light.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day.

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Greek proverb
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy taleIt is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

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Hans Christian Andersen
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

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Walt Disney
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

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Pablo Picasso
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

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Frank Sinatra
Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

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Rabindranath Tagore
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

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Miguel de Cervantes
Love not what you are, but what you may become.

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William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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William Saroyan
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

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J.R.R. Tolkien
Courage is found in unlikely places.

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Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

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John Dryden
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.

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George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.

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Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

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G. K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

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Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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Albert Szent-Gyrgyi
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

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Mary Lou Cook
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

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Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

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Unknown
A smile happens in a flash, but it's memory can last a lifetime.

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François de la Rochefoucauld
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire.

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Ben Okri
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

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Rabindranath Tagore
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

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Thomas Edison
Most people don't recognize opportunity when it comes, because it's usually dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.

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Chinese proverb
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

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Unknown
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

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William Blake - Auguries of Innocence
To see the world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wildflower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

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Woody Allen
If God is all-powerful, he certainly is an underachiever.

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Unknown
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

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Unknown
And sometimes when you turn, there is a shoulder to lean upon,
A smile to believe in, a hand to hold.
A tear to speak for, a hug to live for,
A twinkle to kiss and a wrinkle to touch.
Those are the times your faith in the world is restored,
The soul has a fresh lease on life.
Those are the times worth living for,
Those are the tiny moments of Glory in our everyday lives!

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Unknown
You cannot set out in life to correct what is wrong in this world today
Until you have taken care of life's matters at home.

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Unknown
If you can show me a person who has made no mistakes,
I will show you a person who has achieved nothing.

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Unknown
Learn from the mistakes of others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

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Unknown
Rivers know this: there is no hurry, we shall get there some day.

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Unknown
To be a star,
You must shine your own light,
Follow your own path,
And don't worry about the darkness,
For that is when stars shine brightest!

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Unknown
Having a place to go - is a home.
Having someone to love - is a family.
Having both - is a blessing

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Unknown
The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE!

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Unknown
The best way to predict the future is to create it!

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Unknown
A true friend is one who will walk through the door
While the others are running out.

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Unknown
It took me a long time to learn that the relationship between hard work and success is NOT direct. If you work hard, you'll be successful; that is not the case. The relationship is: If you don't work hard, then you can't be successful.

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Unknown
Pride is focused on our painful pasts,
While forgiveness is focused on our fruitful futures.

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Unknown
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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Ernest Dawson
They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
Out of a mist of dream
Our path emerges for a while
Then closes within a dream.

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Henri Vaugh
If you canst but thither
There goes the flower of Peace
The rose that cannot wither,
They fortress and they ease.

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Matthew A. R. Bassity
A garden of roses is a fragrant piece of haven.
A garden without roses is a sorry thing.

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Stanley Horowitz
Winter is an etching,
Spring a watercolor,
Summer an oil painting,
And autumn is a mosaic of all of them.

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Elisabeth Lawrence
Any garden demands as much as its maker as he has to give.
But I don't need to tell you, if you are a gardener, that no other undertaking will give as great a return for the amount of effort you put on it.

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Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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a dying cancer patient
The automn leaves,
Doing their butterfly dance toward death.
Such valour they must have,
To dance the dance so gratefully.

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Unknown
For not to try is not to love
- and not to love is, now, impossible.

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Dr. Jamshed J. Irani
We must have the courage to change what we can,
the humility to accept what we cannot
and the wisdom to differentiate between the two.

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Unknown
May the wicked become gentle.
May the gentle attain peace.
May the peaceful get rid of the bondages.
May the liberated liberate the others.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Success

To laugh often and much.
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children.
To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends.
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others!
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden path or a redeemed social condition.
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

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Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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Elbert Hubbard
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

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Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter."

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Niels Bohr
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

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Jules Verne
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real

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Ursula LeGuin
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

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Napoleon Bonaparte
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.

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Buddha
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

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S. Scaramouche
What makes life worth living?
To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.

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Unknown
Giving someone all your love,
Is never an assurance that they'll love you back.
Don't expect love in return.
Just wait for it.
To grow in their heart.
But if it doesn't,
Be content it grew in yours.

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