"Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy. - Kahlil Gibran "

Gibran, Kahlil on flowers
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"Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations."

Richter, Charles on procrastination   

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."

Bejar, Hada on beauty
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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire on doctors
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"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

Brown, Les on responsibility
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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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"When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable."

Couples, Fred on preparation
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"Not everything which is bad comes to hurt us."

Proverb, Italian on adversity
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"It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable."

L'Estrange, Sir Roger on happiness
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"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."

Durant, William J. on action
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"You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet."

Macauley, Ed on excellence
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"forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me."

Unknown on forgiveness
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"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on success
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