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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. -Mark Twain

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It is not a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is sin.- Dr. Benjamin Mays

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.- Robert Frost

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.- Walter Bagehot

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.- Adlai Stevenson

A proverb is no proverb till your life has illustrated it.- John Keats

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's good only for wallowing in.- Katharine Mansfield

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors ...but they all have to learn to live in the same box.

A twist on the "Indian Prayer":
God grant me the Senility
to forget the people
I never liked anyway,
the good fortune
to run into the ones I do,
and the eyesight
to tell the difference.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Maybe God wanted us to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.

Maybe when the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.

Maybe the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

Maybe it is true that we don't know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we have been missing until it arrives.

Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart; but if it does not, be content it grew in yours.

It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.

There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real.

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

Happiness lives for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you are the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

TO REMEMBER ME
Give my sight to the man who has
Never seen a sunrise, a baby's face,
Or love in the eyes of a woman.
Give my heart to a person whose
Own heart has caused nothing
But endless days of pain.
Give my blood to the teenager who
Was pulled from the wreckage of
His car, so that he might live
To see his grandchildren play.
Give my kidneys to one who depends
On a machine to exist from week to week.
Take my bones, every muscle, every
Fiber and nerve in my body and find
A way to make a crippled child walk.
Explore every corner of my brain. Take my cells, if necessary,
And let them grow, so that someday, a speechless boy will shout
At the crack of a bat and a deaf girl will hear the sound of
Rain against her window.
Burn what is left of me and
Scatter the ashes to the winds
To help the flowers grow.
If you must bury something, let
It be my faults, my weaknesses and all
Prejudice against my fellow man.
Give my sins to the devil.
Give my soul to God.
If by chance, you wish to remember
Me, do it with a kind deed or
Word to someone who needs you.
If you do all I have asked,
I will live forever.

By Robert N. Test

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