"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

Dyer, Wayne on decisions
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"Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it."

Rohn, Jim on books - reading
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"Live not in yesterdays, Look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, Look forward to tomorrow."

Hulsgen, J.J. on present
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"I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."

Huxley, Aldous on fame
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"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."

Brandeis, Louis D. on impossibility
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"To have a great idea, have a lot of them."

Edison, Thomas A. on ideas
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"I never exaggerate. I just remember big."

Rodriguez, Chi Chi on exaggeration
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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius on revenge
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"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. "

Angelou, Maya on complaining
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"If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today."

Chapman, Joyce on past
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success."

Unknown, Source on courage
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore."

Szasz, Thomas on insecurity
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on acceptance
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"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

Berger, John on bores and boredom
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"On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear."

Bhagavad Gita on failure
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"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

Mahfouz, Naguib on questions
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"Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?"

Connolly, Charles on questions
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"What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you."

Dyer, Wayne on anger
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"Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist."

Dyer, Wayne on leadership
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"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on creativity
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"Accept your genius and say what you think."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."

Sweetland, Ben on kindness   

"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."

Hugo, Victor on waste
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

Hugo, Victor on common sense
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"An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on kindness
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"We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted."

Aesop on wish and wishing
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"With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation."

George, David Lloyd on change
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"It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned."

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne on learning
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."

Hill, Napoleon on mind
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"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."

Antisthenes on enemies
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"Wise men learn many things from their enemies."

Aristophanes on enemies
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"The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it."

Albee, Edward on creativity
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