"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

Burnett, Carol on change
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out."

Becker, May L. on hope
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"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."

Brown, Les on change
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. 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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"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first."

Bailey, Pearl on change
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"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

Alther, Lisa on change
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."

Keller, Helen on opportunity
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"forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me."

Unknown on forgiveness
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"Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts."

King, Stephen on pain
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"It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts."

Levant, Oscar on regret
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"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."

Sheldon, W. H. on cheerfulness   

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Miller, Arthur on regret
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"Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth."

Purkey, William on life
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"This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain."

O'Neal, Shaquille on competition   

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

Dalai Lama on service
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"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

Seneca on hatred
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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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"Forgiveness keeps you whole; it allows you to love even when you are hurt."

Kessler, Daniella on
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"If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances."

Soul, Julia on risk
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"The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

Proverb, Chinese on action
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"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."

Proverb, Chinese on power
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"With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich."

Proverb, Chinese on virtue
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"The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow."

Proverb, Chinese on victory
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"An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold."

Proverb, Chinese on time
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"Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

Proverb, Chinese on simplicity
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"Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life."

Proverb, Chinese on respectability
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"If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people."

Proverb, Chinese on prosperity   

"Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

Proverb, Chinese on progress
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"One step at a time is good walking."

Proverb, Chinese on planning
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"To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself."

Proverb, Chinese on parents and parenting
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"To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is."

Proverb, Chinese on action   

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life lies in eliminating the non-essentials." ~ "

Proverb, Chinese on
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"Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him."

Proverb, Hebrew on poverty and the poor   

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

Aristotle on pleasure
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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