"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."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts."

Hill, Napoleon on imagination
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"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."

Gerard, Ralph on imagination
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle."

Whitman, Walt on miracles   

"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."

James, William on miracles
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"For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient."

Gibbs, Nancy on miracles
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"One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life."

Hilsum, Etty on achievement
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Hayes, Helen on achievement
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"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them."

Confucius on fathers
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"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."

Kierkegaard, Søren on prayer
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"Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked."

Berra, Yogi on popularity
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"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on family
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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

Epictetus on action
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"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

Hill, Napoleon on excellence
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily."

Murdock, Mike on change
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"Anything that changes your values changes your behavior."

Sheehan, George on value
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"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."

Buddha on change
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."

Epictetus on listening
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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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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Confucius on family
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"In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of."

Confucius on poverty and the poor
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."

Franklin, Benjamin on poverty and the poor
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"Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging."

Francis of Assisi, St. on poverty and the poor   

"Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth."

Madwed, Sidney on poverty and the poor
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"The poor will always be with you. [John 12: 8]"

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"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself."

Anderson, Walter on responsibility
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on friends and friendship
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."

Bixton, Charles on time
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"We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

Andretti, Mario on desire
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on loneliness
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"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."

Peale, Norman Vincent on detachment
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