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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. -- Allophones Karr
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect. -- Alain De Botton
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. -- Anonymous
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about. -- James Clavell
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment. -- Tom Morris
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. -- Booker T. Washington
We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what I'm doing. -- Designer Ralph Lauren
Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. -- John McCain
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. -- Jack Dempsey
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away. -- Elvis Presley
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life. -- Michael Leboeuf
"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders. -- George P. Burnham
Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength. -- Anonymous
You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside. -- Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros
There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands. -- Victor Robinsoll
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself. -- F. Hawes
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. -- Washington Irving
... A human activity having for its purpose the transmission of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. (on the purpose of art). -- Leo Tolstoy
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -- William Morrow
If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them. -- Francis Bacon
It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in." -- Washington Gladden
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. -- Nicholas Murray Butler
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts. -- Anotole France
I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know. -- Joseph Conrad
The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. -- Wang Yang-Ming