"Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest."

Pilgrim, Peace on possessions
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"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."

Pilgrim, Peace on peace
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"You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them."

Pilgrim, Peace on negotiation
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"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."

Pilgrim, Peace on negativity
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"We are that which activates the body."

Pilgrim, Peace on mind
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"The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak."

Charell, Ralph on self-talk
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"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on hope
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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

Buddha on endurance
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"There's a way to do better... find it."

Edison, Thomas A. on excellence
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"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do."

Garcia, Jerry on excellence
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"The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action."

Godin, Andre on excellence
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"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."

Pollock, Channing on excellence   

"Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more."

Vickery, A. Lou on excellence   

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

Washington, Booker T. on excellence
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"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."

Dylan, Bob on equality
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"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."

Dylan, Bob on regret
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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the end, it is between you and HIM not you and them."

Mother Teresa on
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on criticism
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"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"

Roosevelt, Theodore on opinions
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"There is a great deal of human nature in people."

Twain, Mark on nature
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"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."

Sand, George on beauty
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"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."

Sappho on beauty
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"The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found."

SeVigne, Marquise De on beauty   

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

Shaw, George Bernard on beauty
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"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

Socrates on beauty   

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

Stendhal, Henri B. on beauty   

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on beauty
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"The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think."

Unknown, Source on beauty
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"The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion."

Wolf, Naomi on beauty   

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

Roosevelt, Theodore on power
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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on beauty
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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on beauty
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"A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty
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"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Dickinson, Emily on beauty
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can."

Brown, Helen Gurley on beauty
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"The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on beauty
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"The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego."

Frye, Northrop on beauty
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