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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

“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.”

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

“If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.”

“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.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”

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

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

“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.”

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

“Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!”

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.”

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”