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“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.”

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

“Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

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

“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”