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“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

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

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

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

“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.”

“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

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

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

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

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

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“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.”

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”

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

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

“To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.”

“Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.”

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”