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“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

“I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.”

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

“If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.”

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”

“You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live”

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

“When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.”

“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.”

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong”

“The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”