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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

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

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

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

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“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.”

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

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

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“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.”

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”