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"I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible."--Henry Ford

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."--Hugh Downs

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!"--Teddy Roosevelt

"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."--Unknown

"Some people give out advices like a punch in the mouth. We bleed a little, and we end up not following the advice."--Warren Buffett

"Character isn't inherited."--Helen Gahagan Douglas

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she's not."--Ruth P, Freedmen

"Only the brave know how to forgive."--Laurence Sterne

"I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours."--Bernard Berenson

"A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life."--Charles Darwin

"If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase."--Brian Koslow

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."--M Scott Peck

"Vous ne devriez pas vour formaliser de ce que vos enfents ne vous écoutent jamais, mais vous inquieter en sachant qu'ils vous observent a chaque instant."--Robert Fulghum

"To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave is like supposing we could drink all day and stay sober."--Logan Pearsall Smith

"Every survival kit should include a sense of humor."--Unknown

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."--Tom Robbins

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."--Elbert Hubbard

"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."--Mary Engelbreit

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact."--George Eliot

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."--Josh Billings

"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number."--Edith Armstrong

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."--Lewis Cass

"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help."--Abraham Lincoln

"Find a need and fill it."--Ruth S. Peale

"Go the extra mile. It's never crowded."--Unknown

"Criticism in life is very easy to find, but encouragement is rare."--David E. Lloyd-Jones

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."--Maya Angelou

"My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more."--Og Mandino

"The difference between a good day and a bad day on most days is your attitude."--Dennis Gaskill

"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."--P. B. Medawar

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."--Alfred Lord Tennyson

"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."--Fritz Perls

"Of those who say nothing, few are silent."--Thomas Neill

"He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have."--Don Juan Manuel

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."--E. F. Schumacher

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."--Lord Peter Wimsey, "Gaudy Night"

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."--Thomas Babington Macauley (1800-1859) English politician

"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."--George Jackson

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."--Winston Churchill

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

" The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."--Muhammad Ali

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."--Friedrich Nietzsche

"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"--Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"No one would talk so much in society if he only knew how often he misunderstands others."--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Ignorance is not innocence, but is the promoter of crime."--Carry Nation (1846-1911) American temperance agitator

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."--Marcus Aureleus (121-180) Roman emperor (161-180)

"When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense --importance to learn to laugh at ourselvees."--Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) New Zealander author

"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others."--Samuel Johnson

"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame their parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.""--Louis L'Amour

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."--Chinese Proverb

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."--Eric Hoffer

"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."--William J. H. Boetcker

"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."--James Branch Cabell

"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."--Horace Walpole

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