"Travel is ninety percent anticipation and ten percent recollection."

Streeter, Edward on travel   

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

Chin, Jerry on adversity
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"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."

Luther, Martin on devotions
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"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."

Haldane, John B. S. on boys
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"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."

Twain, Mark on boys   

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

Proust, Marcel on childhood
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"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."

Hubbard, Elbert on education
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"Don't wait to be a great man -- be a great boy."

Unknown, Source on example
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"Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be."

Unknown, Source on worth
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"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

Twain, Mark on mothers
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"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

Lewis, C. S. on grief
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"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."

Barrie, Sir James M. on understanding
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"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."

Keller, Helen on peace
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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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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

Keller, Helen on art
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Wharton, Edith on giving
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"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."

Gibbon, Edward on books - reading   

"We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind."

Unknown, Source on dress   

"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing."

Seneca on ask   

"Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me."

Unknown, Source on giving
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"Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does. "

Unknown, Source on children
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"It takes two men to make a brother."

Zangwill, Israel on relationship   

"A brother is a friend provided by nature."

Pere, Legouve on family   

"Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves."

Wolpe, David J. on prayer
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"Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you."

Freeman, James Dillet on change
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"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others"

Keller, Helen on life
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"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."

Keller, Helen on perseverance
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."

Barrie, Sir James M. on kindness
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"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

Barrie, Sir James M. on youth
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"There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece."

Barry, Dave on humankind
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"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."

Nightingale, Earl on enthusiasm
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"For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [St. Paul In Philippians 4:11]"

Bible on contentment
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"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

Keller, Helen on colleges and universities
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"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."

Keller, Helen on vision
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"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

Keller, Helen on work
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Keller, Helen on action
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"The best way out is always through."

Keller, Helen on problems
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."

Keller, Helen on attitude
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