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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. – Bertrand Russell

Just for today, I will be grateful: Cultivates thankfulness for blessings, shifting perspective from lack to abundance.

Usui Gokai

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. - Nicolas Chamfort

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

George Eliot.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. – Nicolas Chamfort

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start."

Nido Qubein

“We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.”
― Michelle Obama

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. - Scott Adams

“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
― Sarah Dessen

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee

“I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.”
― Jim Garrison

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal. - Richard Le Gallienne

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

Violence is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King III

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu

True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep. — Unknown

“Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.”
― Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. - Coretta Scott King

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. - Honore de Balzac

“When in doubt, look intelligent.” —Garrison Keillor

"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." -

Pablo Neruda

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran

There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it. - Ranata Suzuki

Even a dog won't eat a couple's quarrel. Unknown

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Good fortune comes to those who smile/laugh." Unknown

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life." — Buddha

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. - Mignon McLaughlin

"Persistence, determination, endurance and self-motivation should become your four good friends." — Unknown

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend. - Robert Burns

“Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others”
― Jocelyn Murray, The English Pirate

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. - Corazon Aquino

"You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life."

— Heather Schuck

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
― Albert Einstein

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

A great man is always willing to be little. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open. - Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. - Robert Louis Stevenson

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Lao Tzu

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

Socrates

“Most people are so busy chasing things they don’t have, that they fail to appreciate the things they do.”
― Frank Sonnenberg

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. - e. e. cummings

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”

– H. Auden.

“It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.”
― Ilyas Kassam

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. - Robert M. Pirsig

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

"I say what I mean, and I do what I say.” – Vincent Hanna

All of us have impossible people in our lives. All we can do is circle them in prayer. - Matt Batterson

“I’d like to know what’s behind that grim look on your face.” – Justine Hanna

I'm strong on the outside, not all the way through. I've never been perfect, but neither have you. - Chester Bennington

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. - Havelock Ellis

"The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do." —

Steve Jobs

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. - James Joyce

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
― Anatole France

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. - Rabindranath Tagore

This achieving the center, being grounded in one’s self, is about the highest state a human being can achieve. Bruce Lee

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."

Unknown

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. - Tertullian

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. - James A. Michener

“Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
― Shannon L. Alder

After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and the sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars. - Charles Lindbergh

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
― C.S. Lewis