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Theodore Roosevelt: “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” more

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” more

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Desiderius Erasmus: “The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”

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Theodore Roosevelt: “Do what you can with what you have where you are. ”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

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Anatole France: “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Skill to do comes of doing.”

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James Russell Lowell: “Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

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Seth Godin: “Greatness is frightening. With it comes responsibility.”

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Socrates: “True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.”

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Deborah Tannen: “Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.”

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Stephen Covey: “Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it.”

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Pablo Picasso: “One starts to get young at the age of sixty.”

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Rebecca West: “You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”

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Thich Nhat Hanh: “Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.”

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Annie Dillard: “Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Men are what their mothers made them.”

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Joseph Campbell: “People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances without own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

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Anna Jarvis: “A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother -- and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment.” more

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Andrea Polard: “Happiness is a complex path that becomes easy only as we walk it.” more

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Mary Oliver: “To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” more

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Marge Piercy: “Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.”

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Hannah Arendt: “The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which ‘the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one’s skin or color or race’ are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.” more

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Jesse Pender: “From where we are there is always a path toward love. What takes discipline is continually choosing that path.”

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Corita Kent: “Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.”

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