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“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”

“Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.”

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

“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.”

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

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

“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

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

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

“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.”

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“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.”

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”