"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."

Gandhi, Mahatma on evil
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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on courage
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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on achievement
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

Mcclellan, Foster C. on achievement
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"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

Hansen, Mark Victor on achievement
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van on achievement
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on motivation
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"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."

Bennett, Arnold on effort
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"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha on control
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."

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"Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right."

Anderson, Gillian on prejudice
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"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not."

Kennedy, Robert F. on dream
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"There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening."

Proverb, American on people
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"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden, John on mistakes
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

Lasorda, Tommy on pressure
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."

Adams, Bryan on thoughts and thinking
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"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

Ward, William A. on planning
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

Plato on wisdom
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"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

Rohn, Jim on value
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on hope
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all."

Dickinson, Emily on hope
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
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"Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe."

Angelou, Maya on time
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"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive."

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"We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."

Brown, Les on motivation
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"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire."

Foster, John W. on motivation
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"Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on motivation
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