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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead — and not then until we have been dead

years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. Les Brown

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Marianne Williamson

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has

need to be forgiven. George Herbert

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. Jimmy Dean

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our

fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. Bruce Barton

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. Gail Sheehy

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin. Denise McCluggage

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

NEIL ARMSTRONG:

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced

than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be

impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. Frank Lloyd Wright

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph

Waldo Emerson

To love beauty is to see light. Victor Hugo

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. John Ray

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of

saving, of healing. Matthew Fox.

The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde

The years teach much which the days never know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus

Experience is the teacher of all things. Julius Ceasar

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. Ralph Marston

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. Heinrich Heine

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin

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

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and

you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer. Aryeh Frimer

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Baltasar Gracian

Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it. Cale Yarborough

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. Dame Edna Everage

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. Lily Tomlin

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he

is. Oscar Wilde

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle