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Friends are those rare peoplewho ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.– Ed Cunningham

The future depends on what we do in the present.– Mahatma Gandhi

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.– George Eliot

Think for yourself and let others enjoythe privilege of doing so too.– Voltaire

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening skywould be in the palm of my hand.– Author Unknown

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. – Albert Einstein

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.– Albert Schweitzer

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.– Rusty Berkus

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – e.e. cummings

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.– Michael Jordan

Love conquers all.– Virgil

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.– Joseph Addison

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves,but in our attitude towards them.– Antoine de Saint Exupery

Fear less, hope more;Whine less, breathe more;Talk less, say more;Hate less, love more;And all good things are yours.– Anonymous

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. – Moliere

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.– Charles A. Beard

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?– Stephen Levine

A teacher affects eternity;he can never tell where his influence stops.– Henry Brooks Adams



You know you've achieved perfection in design,not when you have nothing more to add,but when you have nothing more to take away.– Antoine de Saint Exupery

Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.– Jonathan Swift

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify, SIMPLIFY.– Thoreau

Out of clutter, find Simplicity.From discord, find Harmony.In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.– ALBERT EINSTEIN

Somewhere there is something incredible waiting to be known.– Carl Sagan

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.– James Lowell

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a livingat what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolveto make it happen.– Wayne Dyer

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.– Lao Tzu

It is never too late to be what you might have been.– George Eliot

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.– Leo Buscaglia

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower,hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.– William Blake

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, serenely, divinely aware.– Henry Miller

Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.– William James

“There is no use in trying,” said Alice;“one can’t believe impossible things.”“I dare say you haven’t had much practice,”said the Queen. “When I was your age,I always did it for half an hour a day.Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.– Lewis Carroll

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.– Goethe

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.– Nietzsche

Dance as though no one is watching you.Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.– Souza

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.– Henry David Thoreau

You are pure potential.– Maat

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.– Henry David Thoreau

Do what you can with what you have where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.– ZIGGY



Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. – Voltaire

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. – William Blake

Speak when you're angry,and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.– Lawrence J. Peter

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.– Joseph Heller

Appreciation is a wonderful thing;it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.– Voltaire

Age is of no importanceunless you are a cheese.– Billie Burke

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.– Anonymous

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.– H. W. Arnold

Unthankfulness is theft.– Martin Luther

. . .if we wait for the moment when everything,absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.– Ivan Turgenev

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.– David Grayson

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel,and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.– Leo Rosten

We grow great by dreams....Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them. – Woodrow Wilson

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no short cuts to any place worth going.– Unknown

Knowing is not enough;We must apply.Willing is not enough;We must do.– Goethe

Find the seed at the bottom of your heartand bring forth a flower.– Shigenori Kameoka

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.– Sir Thomas Browne

He who is devoid of the power to forgiveis devoid of the power to love.– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.– Victor Hugo

A happy person is not a person in a certainset of circumstances, but rather a personwith a certain set of attitudes.– Hugh Downs

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