A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw
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27Nov
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24Dec
“The less you love, the more your life will flash by.” – The Tree of Life (movie)
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23Mar
“Enthusiasm is one of life’s greatest qualities, but it must be practiced to become a dominant factor in one’s life. There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.” – Norman Vincent Peale
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27Nov
I would be a friend to the friendless and find joy in ministering to the needs of the poor. I would visit the sick and afflicted and inspire in them a desire for faith to be healed. I would teach the truth to the understanding and blessing of all mankind. I would seek out the erring one and try to win him back to a righteous and a happy life. I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is right. I would live with the masses and help to solve their problems that their earth life may be happy. I would avoid the publicity of high positions and discourage the flattery of thoughtless friends. I would not knowingly wound the feelings of any, not even one who may have wronged me, but would seek to do him good and make him my friend. I would overcome the tendency to selfishness and jealousy and rejoice in the successes of all the children of my Heavenly Father. I would not be an enemy to any living soul. – George Albert Smith
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27Nov
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, “here and now”, without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank. – Ortega y Gusset
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27Nov
Courage and cowardice are antithetical. Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is a submissive surrender to circumstance. Courage breeds creative self-affirmation; cowardice produces destructive self-abnegation. Courage races fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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24Dec
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” –John Lennon
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28Apr
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia
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28Apr
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
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28Apr
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anaïs Nin
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12Apr
“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.” – Laura Hillenbrand, *Unbroken*
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18Mar
“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.” - Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer
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28Apr
“If there wasn’t mystery, people wouldn’t have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn’t have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.” – Emma Roberts
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28Apr
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
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29Apr
“In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.” – Rollo May
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29Apr
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
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29Apr
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
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28Apr
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
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28Apr
“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” – Agnes DeMille
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04Apr
“There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. It is work that spells the difference in life. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
