Attitude

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Attitude

• Attitudes are contagiousis yours worth catching?
• "Never let yesterday use up today."-Richard H.
  Nelson
• "Man never made any material as resilient as the
  human spirit."-Bern Williams
• "Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't
  anything."-Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)
• People who never get carried away should be. -
  Malcolm Forbes
• "I make the most of all that comes and the least
  of all that goes." -Sara Teasdale
• "The bridges you cross before you come to them
  are over rivers that aren't there."-Gene Brown
• "Love the moment and the energy of the moment
  will spread beyond all boundaries."--Corita Kent
• "Though no one can go back and make a brand new
  start, anyone can start from now and make a brand
  new ending." Anonymous
• "Opportunities multiply as they are seized they
  die when neglected. Life is a long line of
  opportunities."-John Wicker
• "Was it always my nature to take a bad time and
  block out the good times, until any success
  became an accident and failure seemed the only
  truth?" - Lillian Hellman
• To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to
  remember it. - Confucius
• Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is. -
  Catfish Hunter
• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I
  can adjust my sails to always reach my
  destination.
• "The act of acting morally is behaving as if
  everything we do matters."-Gloria Steinem
• "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow."-
  Swedish proverb
• "I'm not going to limit myself just because
  people won't accept the fact that I can do
  something else." - Dolly Parton
• "I believe half the unhappiness in life comes
  from people being afraid to go straight at
  things."-William J. Locke
• "Concern should drive us into action and not into
  depression." - Karen Horney

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• Don't curse the darkness--light a candle. -
  Chinese proverb
• Bad habits are easier to abandon today than
  tomorrow. - Yiddish Proverb
• We are only rich through what we give. -
  Anne-Sophie Swetchine
• Bad is never good until worse happens. - Danish
  Proverb
• Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were
  counted and published everyday, like those of a
  baseball player. - Anonymous
• To dream of the person you would like to be is to
  waste the person you are. - Anonymous
• "If . . . you can't be a good example, then
  you'll just have to be a horrible
  warning."-Catherine Aird
• He who limps still walks. - Stanislaw Lec
• Faith that the thing can be done is essential to
  any great achievement. - Thomas N. Carruther
• I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how
  to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott
• I make the most of all that comes, and the least
  of all that goes. - Sara Teasdale
• You can't hold a man down without staying down
  with him. - BT Washington
• I always meant to procrastinate but I never got
  around to it. - unknown
• Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith
  looks up. - unknown
• Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
• The person who knows how to laugh at himself will
  never cease to be amused. -Shirley Maclaine
• A man wrapped up in himself is a very small
  bundle. - Benjamin Franklin
• The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves
  of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the
  tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller
• The optimist thinks that this is the best of all
  possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. - J.
  Robert Oppenheimer

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Be Yourself

• Nobody has a better vision of who you are than
  yourself. - Sheryl Crow
• When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes
  out -- because that's what's inside. When you are
  squeezed, what comes out is what is inside. -
  Wayne Dyer
• "I don't want to be a passenger in my own life."
  - Diane Ackerma
• 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, 1955
• He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon
  whittle himself away. Raymond Hull
• Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
  Confucius
• "Because you're not what I would have you be, I
  blind myself to who, in truth, you
  are."--Madeline L'Engle
• "We have to dare to be ourselves, however
  frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
  --May Sarton
• "She lacks confidence, she craves admiration
  insatiably. She lives on the reflections of
  herself in the eyes of others. She does not care
  to be herself."--Anais Nin
• "He who knows others is wise He knows himself is
  enlightened."-Lao-Tzu
• To dream of the person you would like to be is to
  waste the person you are.
• And remember, no matter where you go, there you
  are. Confucius
• "You cannot belong to anyone else, until you
  belong to yourself." -Pearl Bailey
• "Live as if you like yourself, and it may
  happen." - Marge Piercy
• "A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand
  himself."-Axel Munthe
• I am a big believer in the "mirror test." All
  that matters is if you can look in the mirror and
  honestly tell the person you see there, that
  you've done your best. -- John McKay
• People always say how you should be yourself,
  like 'yourself' is this definite thing, like a
  toaster or something, like you know what it is
  even. - Claire Danes
• To be in style is cool, but maintaining your own
  style is unique.
• If you forget where you come from, you're never
  gonna make it to where you're going. - GK

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• "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've
  got." -Janis Joplin
• Your future depends on many things, but mostly on
  you. - Frank Tyger
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are
  tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. -
  O. Holmes
• It is better to be hated for what you are than to
  be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide
• To thine own self be true. - Shakespeare
• Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside,
  awakes. - Carl Jung
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you
  are. - Theodore Roosevelt
• "Don't rent space to anyone in your head."--Anon.
• You are all you will ever have for certain. -
  June Havoc
• "Once you get rid of the idea that you must
  please other people before you please yourself,
  and you begin to follow your own instincts - only
  then can you be successful."-Raquel Welch
• If you really put a small value upon yourself,
  rest assured the world will not raise your price.
• People are like stained-glass windows. They
  sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when
  the darkness sets in, their true beauty is
  revealed only if there is a light from within. -
  Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• "Other people's opinion of you does not have to
  become your reality." Les Brown
• Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are
  is to go to the place where you dont have to be
  anything else.

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Children

• If there were no schools to take the children
  away from home part of the time, the insane
  asylum would be filled with mothers. -Edgar
  Watson Howe
• Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth
  control!
• Instead of mousetraps, what about baby traps?
  Not to harm the babies, but just to hold them
  down until they can be removed?
• If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a
  cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if
  he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to
  tell him is "Probably because of something you
  did.
• "Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds,
  there is a woman giving birth to a child. She
  must be found and stopped."-Sam Stevenson
• It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it
  would kill you quicker if they didn't. Barbara
  Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
• Getting down on all fours and imitating a
  rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an
  empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and
  make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why
  parents don't do this more often. Usually it
  makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into
  shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're
  a parent, acting like a rhino has another
  advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a
  teenager and he definitely won't have his friends
  hanging around your house all the time. P.J.
  O'Rourke
• "When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a
  nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I
  climb out." - Erma Bombeck

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Courage/Leadership

• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -
  not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
• You cannot discover new oceans unless you have
  the courage to lose sight of the shore.
• "He that can't endure the bad will not live to
  see the good." --Yiddish proverb
• "There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous
  in life as fear."--Jawaharlal Nehru
• "Use what talents you have the woods would have
  little music if no birds sang their song except
  those who sang best." --Reverend Oliver G. Wilson
• "To conquer without risk is to triumph without
  glory." -Pierre Corneille
• It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to
  someone else. - Erma Bombeck
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
  where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph
  Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
• "Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and
  repeat to yourself the most comforting words of
  all This, too, shall pass."-Ann Landers
• "Become so wrapped up in something that you
  forget to be afraid."-Lady Bird Johnson
• If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you
  had better seek another flag. - Anonymous
• "If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit.
  But whatever you do, don't wobble."-Anon.
• If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with
  the rain. - Dolly Parton
• A man who has to be convinced to act before he
  acts is not a man of action. - Georges Clemenceau
• "No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road,
  turn back." --Turkish proverb
• "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your
  courage with others." -Robert Louis Stevenson
• Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. -
  Raymond Lindquist
• Well done is better than well said.
• We must act in spite of fear... not because of
  it. - Anonymous

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• Some men see things the way they are and ask why
  I dream things that never were and say, why not?
  - R Kennedy
• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the
  ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.
• Leaders are like eagles, they don't flock, you
  find them one at a time.
• Use the talents that you possess, for the woods
  would be very silent if no birds sang except the
  best. - Henry Van Dyke
• To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be
  nothing. - Elbert Hubbard
• The strongest man in the world is he who stands
  alone. - Henrik Ibsen
• While one person hesitates because he feels
  inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and
  becoming superior. - HC Link
• "I hereby command you Be strong and courageous
  do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord
  your God is with you wherever you go." - Joshua
  19
• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I
  cannot changecourage to change the things I can
  and wisdom to know the difference.
• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever
  achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
  about things that matter. - Martin Luther King,
  Jr.
• Fear is a waste of time and energy.
• Don't follow in another man's footsteps if you
  can't fill his shoes.
• The one thing that can crush a dream is reality.
• If you don't stand up for something, you'll fall
  for anything.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your
  consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
• The biggest mistake is the fear that you will
  make one.
• "Ideas won't keep something must be done about
  them." - Alfred North Whitehead
• "Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only
  the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."-Theodo
  re N. Vail

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Determination

• The most encouraging words "Bet you can't do
  it!"
• And when they told me I was dreaming - I swore
  I'd prove them wrong. - unknown
• The most important thing about goals is having
  one. - Geoffrey Albert
• One man scorned and covered with scars still
  strove with his last ounce of courage to reach
  the unreachable stars and the world will be
  better for this. - Mitch Leigh
• It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as
  you do not stop. - Confucius
• Do or do notthere is no try. - Yoda
• "Our greatest glory consists not in never
  falling, but in rising every time we
  fall."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You
  can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning
  comes . . . ."--Rev. Jesse Jackson
• "It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things
  and not trying to get them." --Joanna Field
• "With ordinary talent and extraordinary
  perseverance, all things are attainable."--Sir
  Thomas Foxwell Buxton
• Either do not attempt at all, or go through with
  it. - Ovid
• We only do well the things we like doing. -
  Colette
• "For me it's the challenge - the challenge to try
  to beat myself and do better than I did in the
  past. I try to keep in mind not what I have
  accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish
  in the future." - Jackie Joyner Kersee
• "You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's
  that? Come up with a smiling face, it's nothing
  against you to fall down flat, but to lie there -
  that's disgrace." - Edmund Vance Cooke
• "There are two ways of meeting difficulties you
  alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to
  meet them."-Phyllis Bottome
• "The human spirit is stronger than anything that
  can happen to it."-George C. Scott
• "Our business in life is not to get ahead of
  others, but to get ahead of ourselves--to break
  our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our
  today."-Stewart B. Johnson
• Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show
  you a failure. - Knute Rockne
• Don't fall before you're pushed. - English Proverb

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• When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot
  and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small
  pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the
  pebbles in your path and you will find you have
  crossed the mountain. Source Unknown
• The greatest oak was once a little nut who held
  its ground. Source Unknown
• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's
  the size of the fight in the dog. - No Fear
• When you aim for perfection, you discover it is a
  moving target. - George Fisher
• When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you
  and be strong. - Mariah Carey
• Behind every successful man there's a lot of
  unsuccessful years. - Bob Brown
• The race is not always to the swiftbut to those
  who keep on running.
• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human
  breast, that however high we reach we are never
  satisfied. - Macchiavelli
• God gave burdens, also shoulders. - Yiddish
  proverb
• Unless you try to do something beyond what you
  have already mastered, you will never grow.
• "I want to do it because I want to do
  it."--Amelia Earhart
• "Far away in the sunshine are my highest
  inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can
  look up and see the beauty, believe in them and
  try to follow where they lead."-Louisa May Alcott
• The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's
  the opposition. - Nick Seitz
• People are like tea bags you never know how
  strong they are until they are in hot water. -
  Rita Mae Brown
• To be a champ you must believe in yourself when
  no one else will. - Sugar Ray Robinson
• Tough times don't last tough people do.
• By asking for the impossible we obtain the best
  possible. - Italian Proverb
• Restlessness and discontent are the necessities
  of progress. - Thomas Edison

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Drinking

• College is a fountain of knowledge and the
  students are there to drink.
• Deep Thought Sometimes when I reflect back on
  all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look
  into the glass and think about the workers in the
  brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I
  didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work
  and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say
  to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer
  and let their dreams come true than be selfish
  and worry about my liver." -by Jack Handy
• Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life,
  so get wasted all of the time and have the time
  of your life. - Michelle Mastrolacasa
• "This is the way I look when I'm sober. It's
  enough to make a person drink, don't you say?"Lee
  Remick
• "Booze may not be the answer, but it helps you to
  forget the question.
• "The mark of a good party is that you wake up the
  next morning wanting to change your name and
  start a new life in a different city." - Vance
  Bourjaily, "Esquire
• "You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor
  without holding on." Joe E Lewis
• Ive stopped drinking, but only while Im
  asleep. George Best

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Emotions

• Anger is an expression of powerlessness. - Sharif
  Abdullan
• Jealousy can turn a hand into a fist.
• Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your
  absence. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
• It's amazing how clarity comes with psychotic
  jealousy.
• I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my
  wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told
  it not, my wrath did grow. - William Blake
• "Always remember others may hate you but those
  who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And
  then you destroy yourself."-Richard M. Nixon
• Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and
  far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -
  Jean Jacques Rousseau
• "To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a
  dissatisfaction with self."-Joan Didion
• "Jealousy is all the fun you think they
  had."-Erica Jong
• Absence diminishes little passions and increases
  great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans
  a fire. --François de la Rochefoucauld
• Hearts are often broken when there are words
  unspoken. - WH
• Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Ben
  Franklin
• I always knew that looking back on my tears would
  make me laugh, but I never thought that looking
  back on my laughter would make me cry.
• The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see,
  and know what the mind cannot understand. -
  Robert Vallett
• Tears are antifreeze for the soul. - JJ
• Don't fight forces use them. - Buckminster
  Fuller
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
  with the intent of throwing it at someone else
  you are the one getting burned. - Buddha
• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -
  Josh Billings
• Forgiveness is the God who will not leave us
  after all weve done.

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Everyone

• Everyone is worth knowing. - O. Henry
• "Always remember you're unique, just like
  everybody else."
• To the world you might be one person, but to one
  person you might be the world. Unknown
• Together we have shared our loudest laughs and
  our softest tears. Now we must turn to our
  brightest hopes and our darkest fears.
• The only perfect people are those we do not know.
• "We shall never have friends if we expect to find
  them without fault."-Thomas Fuller
• What concerns everyone can only be resolved by
  everyone. - Friedrich Durren-Matt
• Diversity is the one true thing we all have in
  commoncelebrate it every day.
• "We all take different paths in life, but no
  matter where we go, we take a little of each
  other everywhere." - Tim McGraw
• I am he As you are me And we are all together. -
  J. Lennon P. McCartney
• I am a part of all that I have met. - Alfred,
  Lord Tennyson
• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one
  thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoi
• In each of us there is a little of all of us. -
  GL
• We're all here because we're all not there. - IH
• Opinions are like voices we all have a different
  kind so just clean out all of your ears. - TCQ

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Friendship

• Friends understand why unimportant things are
  important. - DP
• Those memories I'll keep forever and to all my
  friends I'll forget you never. - Billy Joel
• A part of you has grown in me. And so you see,
  it's you and me together forever and never apart,
  maybe in distance, but never in heart. Source
  Unknown
• Some people have a large circle of friends while
  others have only friends that they like.
• "In prosperity, our friends know us in
  adversity, we know our friends." -John Churchton
  Collins
• "Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to
  what you say. Best friends listen to what you
  don't say."
• Some people come into our lives, leave footprints
  on our hearts, and we are never the same.
• There are some friends you know you will have for
  the rest of your life. You're welded together by
  love, trust, respect, or loss - orsimple
  embarrassment.
• A friend is a person who tells you all the nice
  things you always knew about yourself.
• Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do
  a happy dance, because a friend is someone who
  loves you in spite of your faults.
• Friendship is love made bearable.
• There is nothing better than the encouragement of
  a good friend. - Katharine Butler Hathaway
• I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new,
  ripened with age.
• The best mirror is an old friend.
• The silver friend knows your present and the gold
  friend knows all of your past dirt and glories.
  Once in a blue moon there's someone who knows it
  all, someone who knows and accepts you
  unconditionally, someone who's there for life.
• May the friends of our youth be the companions of
  our old age.
• It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
• Friendship is a plant which must often be
  watered.
• Each friend represents a world in us, a world
  possibly not born until they arrive, and it is
  only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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• A broken friendship may be soldered, but will
  never be sound. - Thomas Fuller
• In giving advice seek to help, not to please,
  your friend. - Solon
• "Friendship often ends in love but love in
  friendship - never." - Charles Caleb Colton
• "In prosperity, our friends know us in
  adversity, we know our friends." - John Churchton
  Collins
• generosity is the essence of friendship.
• "If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I
  wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to
  catch them."
• A true friend is someone who is there for you
  when he'd rather be anywhere else. -- Len Wein
• Each friend represents a world in us, a world
  possibly not born until they arrive. - Anais Nin
• "I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be
  okay." - Dave Matthews Band
• "If you should die before me, ask if you could
  bring a friend." - Stone Temple Pilots
• It was chance that made us sisters, but our
  hearts that made us friends.
• "Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't
  believe I deserved my friends. - WW
• "Friends are God's way of taking care of us."
• Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
• How casually and unobservedly we make all our
  most valuable acquaintances. - Emerson
• We only part to meet again. - John Gay
• The most I can do for my friend is simply to be
  his friend.
• Being a friend means mastering the art of timing.
  There is a time for silence. A time to let go
  and allow people to hurl themselves into their
  own history. And a time to pick up the pieces
  when it's all over.

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• That is what you love a friend for the ability
  to change your angle of vision, bring back your
  best self when you feel worst, remind you of your
  strengths when you feel weak.
• no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
  without leaving some mark on it forever.
• Savor the moments that are warm and special and
  giggly.
• Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold
  the world together.
• Everyone needs help from everyone.
• "Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I
  dont deserve it. I've never done anything for
  you." "You have been my friend," replied
  Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous
  thing."
• the best relief from life was the presence of a
  friend who seldom asked us for more than we could
  give.
• Friends seem to be like aspirin we don't really
  know why they make a sick person feel better but
  they do.
• True happiness consists not in the multitude of
  friends but in their worth and choice.
• Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile
  things, but just look what they do when they
  stick together.
• He makes me feel bigger and better than I am.
• I always felt that the great high privilege,
  relief, and comfort of friendship was that one
  had to explain nothing.
• We were young together. We grew old. Our
  children became adults. But what was between us
  never really changed, though we each changed so
  much.
• The best thing to hold onto in this world is each
  other.
• Close friends contribute to our personal growth.
  They also contribute to our personal pleasure,
  making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste
  richer, the laughter ring louder because they are
  there.
• Through knowing her I became a better person, and
  she said the same of me.
• A friend can tell you things you don't want to
  tell yourself.
• I guess I have been hiding.Most of my life,
  mostly from myself. But youyou keep blowing my
  cover! You keep showing me myself.

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• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are
  a good egg even though he knows that you are
  slightly cracked. - Bernard Meltzer
• Dont be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is
  necessary before you can meet again. And meeting
  again after moments or lifetimes is certain for
  those who are friends. - R. Bach
• Sister, we fought, we played, we cried, we
  giggled, we hit, we hugged, we yelled, we
  whispered,and somewhere along the way, we became
  best friends. - Carlton Cards greeting card

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Happiness

• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. -
  George Eliot
• Happiness isn't getting what you want, but
  wanting what you have.
• Smile, it increases your face value! - unknown
• "I'm not happy. I'm cheerful. There's a
  difference. A happy woman has no cares at all.
  A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to
  deal with them."-Beverly Sills
• Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It
  might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
  Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H.
  Jackson Brown, Jr.
• An optimist smiles to forget and a pessimist
  forgets to smile.
• "Write it on your heart that every day is the
  best day of the year."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A smile is the light in your window that tells
  others that there is a caring, sharing person
  inside. -- Denis Waitley
• "Happiness comes uninvited and the moment that
  you are conscious that you are happy, you are no
  longer happy."-J. Krishnamurti
• Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard
  battle. Attributed to both T.H. Thompson and
  John Watson
• "The happy people are failures because they are
  on such good terms with themselves that they
  don't give a damn."-Agatha Christie
• Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor
  memory. Albert Schweitzer
• Every day may not be good, but there's something
  good in every day. Unknown
• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and
  it is not possible to find it elsewhere. - AR
• Smile and the world will smile with you.
• "Happiness is a function of accepting what
  is."-Werner Erhard
• Most folks are about as happy as they make up
  their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
• Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the
  ribbons. - Ruth Ann Schabaker
• I finally figured out the only reason to be alive
  is to enjoy it. - Rita Mae Brown

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• If you do not find peace in yourself, you will
  never find it anywhere else. - Paula A. Bendry
• Think of all the beauty still left around you and
  be happy. - Anne Frank
• Happiness is the by-product of an effort to make
  someone else happy.
• Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of
  belief in, their own gifts. - Jean Vanier
• "Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more
  Talk less, say more Hate less, love more And
  all good things are yours." -Anon

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Hard Work

• You are never given a wish without the power to
  make it come true. - unknown
• We never know how far we can go until we try.
• Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself
  to the most brilliant metals. Voltaire
• Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. - Mike
  Murdock
• Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. - Joan
  Heywood
• "There are no shortcuts to any place worth
  going."-Beverly Sills
• If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If
  you can dream it, you can become it.
• If it weren't hard everyone would do it.
• "Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to
  it."-Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "You sometimes have to be pushed off a ledge and
  let your little wings begin to flap before you
  realize you can actually fly." -Sherrill's mom
• "Do each daily task the best we can act as
  though the eye of opportunity were always upon
  us."-William Feather
• Good is not good, when better is expected. -
  Thomas Fuller
• "Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny." -
  Don Sutton
• If hard work is the key to success, most people
  would rather pick the lock.
• It's better to burn out than to fade away.
• If a man does his best, what else is there? -
  George S. Patton
• Even if you're on the right side of the track,
  you'll get run over if you just stand there. -
  Mark Twain
• Things will come to those who wait, but only the
  things left by those who hustle. - AL

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Honesty

• Be honest whenever possible.
• We must be true to each other. - Lucy Stone
• Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about
  us. - H. Fielding
• To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be
  loved. - George MacDonald

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Human Behaviors/Interactions

• What destroys one man preserves another. -
  Corneille
• Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others
  are ready to save us the trouble? - George W.
  Pachaud
• "You have no idea how big the other fellow's
  troubles are."--B. C. Forbes
• "When you blame others you give up your power to
  change."--Anon.
• You probably wouldn't worry about what people
  think of you if you knew how seldom they do. -
  Olin Miller
• "The true test of character is...how we behave
  when we don't know what to do." - John Holt
• "You have not lived a perfect day, even though
  you earned your money, unless you have done
  something for someone who will never be able to
  repay you." - Ruth Smeltzer
• "When people keep telling you that you can't do a
  thing, you kind of like to try it." - Margaret
  Chase Smith
• "Treat people as if they were what they should
  be, and you help them become what they are
  capable of becoming." - Johannn von Goethe
• We are old enough to know what's wrong but young
  enough to do it.
• "Tact is the art of making a point without making
  an enemy."-Howard W. Newton
• The whole problem with the world is that fools
  and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
  but wiser people are so full of doubts. -
  Bertrand Russel
• He who does not understand your silence will
  probably not understand your words. - F. Hubbard
• The true test of character is...how we behave
  when we don't know what to do. - John Holt
• The fact that man knows right from wrong proves
  his intellectual superiority to other creatures
  but the fact that he can do wrong proves his
  moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. -
  Mark Twain
• "A person becomes an adult when he buries both of
  his parents." - JFK Jr.
• The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also
  to love our enemies probably because they are
  generally the same people. - Mark Twain
• "The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naïve
  forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not
  forget."-Thomas Szasz

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• God was just showing off when he created you.
  From the movie Keeping the Faith
• All she keeps inside isn't on the label. Fuel
• Most people don't look dumb till they start
  talking. - FG
• Gossip is when you hear something you like about
  someone you don't. - Earl Wilson
• The race could save one half its wasted labor
  would each reform himself and spare his neighbor.
  - Frank Putnam
• If you can't convince them, confuse them. - Harry
  S. Truman
• "The world's crazy, when it comes to beauty." -
  Richard Bach
• He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge
  over which he himself must pass if he would ever
  reach heaven for everyone has need to be
  forgiven. -- George Herbert
• You think the only people who are people Are the
  ones who look and think the way you do But if
  you walk the footsteps of a strangerYou'll learn
  the things you never knew you never knew.....from
  Pocohantas
• "A critic is someone who never actually goes to
  the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting
  the wounded. -Tyne Daly
• "Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else
  can."--Elsa Maxwell
• Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road
  back to happiness. Without them we will never be
  free of our pasts. We deserve to move on. We
  need not be held hostage to our pasts if we are
  willing to release and grow beyond them. ....by
  Tina Dayton
• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive
  a friend. William Blake
• The family, that dear octopus from whose
  tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our
  innermost hearts ever quite wish to. Dodie
  Smith
• "Fathers are biological necessities, but social
  accidents." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78)
• Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough
  to win. -Jonathan Kozol
• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never
  know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo
  Emerson
• Maybe some people just arent meant to be in our
  lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing
  through. Its like some people just come through
  our lives to bring us something a gift, a
  blessing, a lesson we need to learn, and thats
  why theyre here... youll have that gift
  forever. - The Gift

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• "Living well is the best revenge."-George
  Herbert
• No one feels another's grief, no one understands
  another's joy. People imagine that they can reach
  one another. In reality they only pass each other
  by. - Franz Schubertv
• If all men knew what others say of them, there
  would not be four friends in the world. - Blaise
  Pascal
• Everything is funny as long as it is happening to
  someone else. - Will Rogers
• I am the lie that you believe.
• Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.-- Isaac
  Friedmann
• If you want to be listened to, you should put
  time in listening. - Marge Piercy
• A loving person lives in a loving world. A
  hostile person lives in a hostile world everyone
  you meet is your mirror. - Ken Keyes, Jr.
• We only accuse others of the sins we commit
  ourselves. - Hyman
• It isn't what they say about you, it's what they
  whisper. - Errol Flynn
• Where all men think alike, no one thinks very
  much. - Walter Lippman
• Good communication is as stimulating as black
  coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne
  Morrow Lindbergh
• Watch what people are cynical about, and one can
  often discover what they lack. - George S. Patton
• There is only one thing in the world worse than
  being talked about, and that is not being talked
  about. - Oscar Wilde
• The nice thing about egotists is that they don't
  talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper
• When you hate a person, you hate something in him
  that is part of yourself. What isn't in us
  doesn't disturb us. - Hermann Hesse
• If you compare yourself with others, you may
  become vain or bitter, for always there will be
  greater and lesser persons than yourself. - Max
  Ehrmann
• Flatter me and I may not believe you, criticize
  me and I may not like you, ignore me and I may
  not forgive you, encourage me and I'll never
  forget you.
• He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of
  dullness in others. - Samuel Foote

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• Many take up my time - I shun them. Some share
  my time - I am entertained by them. Few
  contribute to my time - I cherish them.

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Indecision

• Indecision may or may not be my problem. -
  unknown
• If a house be divided against itself, that house
  cannot stand. - The Bible (Mark 325)
• He who has choice has trouble. - Dutch Proverb
• To think too long about doing a thing often
  becomes its undoing. - Eva Young
• "There is always a multitude of reasons both in
  favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The
  art of debate lies in presenting them the art of
  life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of
  them." - Mark Rutherford
• "Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and
  nothing is so futile." - Bertrand Russell
• "We know what happens to people who stay in the
  middle of the road. They get run over." -Anuerin
  Bevan
• "No task is a long one but the task on which one
  dare not start. It becomes a nightmare."
  -Baudeliare
• "He who has a choice has trouble." -- Dutch
  Proverb
• "Tell me princess, now when did you last let your
  heart decide?" -- Aladdin
• "The truth of the matter is that you always know
  the right thing to do. The hard part is doing
  it." -- H. Norman Schwarzkopf

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Learning

• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives
  the test first, the lesson afterwards. - Vernon
  Sanders Law
• Forget the times of your distress, but never
  forget what they taught you. - Herbert Gasser
• "The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the
  hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if
  it prevents you from feeding yourself."-Thomas
  Szasz
• You don't know what you've got until it's gone.
• Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that
  immediately decays upon growing familiar with its
  object. - Joseph Addison
• Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more
  intelligently. - Henry Ford
• A teacher affects eternity he can never tell
  where his influence stops. - Henry Adams
• Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm
  S. Forbes
• "Trust you own instinct. Your mistakes might as
  well be your own, instead of someone else's." -
  Billy Wilder
• Children are likely to live up to what you
  believe of them. - Lady Bird Johnson
• Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach
  a man to fish and he'll eat forever.
• "When you're through changing, you're
  through."-Bruce Barton
• "When everything has to be right, something
  isn't." - Stanislaw Lec
• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he
  who does not ask remains a fool forever. -
  Chinese proverb
• Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but
  quickly to see how to make them good. - Bertolt
  Brecht
• Today's philosophy is tomorrow's common sense.
• The only stupid question is the one that is not
  asked.
• "Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we
  can from our mistakes and failures, we should put
  them behind us and go ahead."-Edith Johnson
• Of course there's a lot of knowledge in
  universities the freshmen bring a little in the
  seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort
  of accumulates... Anonymous

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Life

• Life is not lost by dying, life is lost minute by
  minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand
  small uncaring ways. - Stephen Vincent Benet
• "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if
  you'll die today." - James Dean
• Let us live so that when we come to die even the
  undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain
• "Life's under no obligation to give us what we
  expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's
  no worse than it is. --Margaret Mitchell
• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The
  greatest loss is what dies inside us while we
  live. Norman Cousins
• "For the happiest life, days should be rigorously
  planned, nights left open to chance."--Mignon
  McLaughlin
• "Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your
  work. The second is only part of the first. And
  remember that no man has said on his deathbed
  that he wished he had spent more time in the
  office. You are the only person who has sole
  custody of your life. Your particular life.
  Your entire life. But do not consider yourself
  the center of the universe. Show up. Listen.
  Try to laugh."- Anna Quindlen
• "If you want a place in the sun, you have to put
  up with a few blisters."--Abigail Van Buren
• "What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd
  realized it sooner." - Colette
• "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but
  rather that it shall never have a
  beginning."-John Henry Cardinal Newman
• "Each day, and the living of it, has to be a
  conscious creation in which discipline and order
  are relieved with some play and pure
  foolishness."-May Sarton
• "Walk away from it your problems until you get
  stronger. All your troubles will be there when
  you get back, but you'll be better able to
  cope."--Lady Bird Johnson
• The mere sense of living is joy enough. - Emily
  Dickinson
• The purpose of life is life.- Karl Lagerfeld
• "Seize today, and put as little trust as you can
  in the morrow."--Horace
• Isn't it delightfully absurd how one might make a
  left instead of a right to end up crossing paths
  with a stranger who will forever change your
  life. - AK
• The more you live, the less you die. - NFG
• Life is short, play hard.

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• "Give to the world the best you have and the best
  will come back to you."-Madeline Bridges
• "Do not rely completely on any other human being,
  however dear. We meet all of life's greatest
  tests alone."-Agnes McPhail
• "There is a very real relationship, both
  quantitatively and qualitatively, between what
  you contribute and what you get out of this
  world."-Oscar Hammerstein II
• All change is not growth, as all movement is not
  forward. - Ellen Glasgow
• I don't want to get to the end of my life and
  find that I just lived the length of it. I want
  to have lived the width of it as well.-Diane
  Ackerman
• Just when you think you've finally hit bottom,
  someone tosses you an anchor.
• What you are is God's gift to you what you make
  of yourself is your gift to God.
• There are two tragedies in life One is not
  getting your heart's desire. The other is to get
  it. - Shaw
• "A person needs at intervals to separate himself
  from family and companions and go to new places.
  He must go without his familiars in order to be
  open to influence, to change."--Katherine B.
  Hathaway
• "The game of life is not so much in holding a
  good hand as playing a poor hand well."-H. T.
  Leslie
• "Decisions determine destiny."-Frederick Speakman
• I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent
  all of th