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“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

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

“Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.”

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

“Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?”