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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by." ― Shania Twain
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Mencken
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.– Dalai Lama
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." — Dr. Seuss
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said. - William F. Buckley, Jr.
"If you love large, you’ve got to hurt large. If you’ve got a lot of light, you’ve probably got an equal amount of darkness.” – Sarah McLachlan
It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. - Thomas Fuller
Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit".
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more
-Lord Byron
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn vos Savant
"You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak." ― George Clooney
A man is known by the company his mind keeps. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Abraham Lincoln
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. - Eugene Ionesco
“How people die remains in the memory of those who live on” – Dame Cicely Saunders
The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.-Norman Vincent Peale
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. - Dorothy L. Sayers
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.-Seneca
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. - William Blake
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." - Wayne Dyer
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. - Amos Bronson Alcott
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.- Napoleon Hill
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
Eric Hoffer
By blood we are broken; by blood we are born. With this blood, be the Covenant of Caleb. In Lucifer’s name, you will be transformed. - from the Netflix series "Devil In Ohio"
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.— Rumi
"If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours." - Dolly Parton