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“To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.” -Steve Earle

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“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” – Charles Dickens

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“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” -Charles Dickens

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“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.” – Thomas Edison

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“You must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy.” – Leo Tolstoy

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“As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to service any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for mankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.” – Benjamin Franklin

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“Become a possibilitarian. no matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities-always see them, for they’re always there.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices-just recognize them.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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“Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good, as opportunity offers are sowing seeds all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.” – Unknown

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“If human beings are to progress, if we are to continue our long, brutal, heartbreaking journey out of the caves and swamps, then the way must be led by those who are not afraid of the dark.” – Pete Hamill

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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” – Samuel Butler

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

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“The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!” – Adrian Rogers

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“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.” – Albert Schweitzer

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“To give life a meaning one must have a purpose larger than oneself.” – Will Durant

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“When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick.” – Bill Lemley

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“You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

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“In the time of your life, live.” – William Saroyan

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“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” – Margaret Thatcher

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“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.” – Frank A Clark

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“Happiness is the butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and softly sits on your shoulder.” – Viktor Frankl

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“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what might be, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility.” – Soren Kierkegaard

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“Live to learn, learn to love, and you’ll love to live.” – Matthew Cowley

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“Peace may cost as much as war, but it’s a better buy.” – E.C. McKenzie

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“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison

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“The tragedy of the world is that men have given first class loyalty to second class causes, and these causes have betrayed them.” – Lynn Harold Hough

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“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” – Confucius

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“When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do…doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don’t want to do, they won’t.” – James Gould Cozzens

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“You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. and it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God, and God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings, and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial Kingdom of God.” – Joseph Smith

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“A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort; who, if they could have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths.” – Sidney Smith

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“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you’ve become a comfortable, trusted element in another person’s life.” – Dr. Joyce Brothers

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“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

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“Hatred is blind as well as love.” – Thomas Fuller

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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” – Hermann Hesse, Demian

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“Look around and you’ll agree that the really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get on in this world are the people who look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” – George Bernard Shaw

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“The future does not belong to those who are content with today…rather it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.” – Robert Kennedy

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“The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.” – Franklin S Richards

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“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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