"'Tis better to understand, than to be understood."

Francis of Assisi, St. on understanding
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"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt."

Francis of Assisi, St. on wisdom
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"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Francis of Assisi, St. on dream
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"Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together."

Proverb on pride
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"All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on patience
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"If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity."

Kennedy, John F. on conflict
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"There is no education like adversity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Francis, Brendan on acceptance
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"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."

Camus, Albert on arrogance
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"You are either part of the solution or part of the problem."

Cleaver, Eldridge on choice
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"Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle."

Bright, Grant M. on knowledge
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"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

Brokaw, Tom on influence
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"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

Dyer, Wayne on decisions
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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."

Dyer, Wayne on desire
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"You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well."

Dyer, Wayne on health
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

Dyer, Wayne on loneliness
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"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you."

Dyer, Wayne on love
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"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous."

Dyer, Wayne on money
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"Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility."

Dyer, Wayne on possibilities
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"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."

Dyer, Wayne on procrastination
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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

Dyer, Wayne on slavery
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"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

Dyer, Wayne on action
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"The buck stops here."

Truman, Harry S on money   

"How do you live a long life? Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

Truman, Harry S on longevity   

"I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it."

Truman, Harry S on leadership   

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own."

Truman, Harry S on depression
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"We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected."

Truman, Harry S on world   

"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences."

Truman, Harry S on peace
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"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."

Truman, Harry S on challenges
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"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."

Truman, Harry S on truth
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"I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

Truman, Harry S on truth   

"Good advice is beyond all price."

Proverb on advice
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"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!"

Day, Doris on age and aging
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"A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on women
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"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that."

Bailey, Pearl on fraud
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"Who God does not teach, man cannot."

Proverb, Gaelic on learning   

"God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it."

Gulbranson, Gary on god   

"There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out."

West, Mae on scandal
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"What you can become you are already."

Friedrich, Hebbel on potential   

"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."

Pilgrim, Peace on love
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