“Columbus set out to find a passage to the Indies and failed; he found America instead. Ponce de Leon looked for the fountain of youth and found Florida. The greatest explorers seem to find something other than what they are looking for.” –

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“Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin

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“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks.” – Charles Dickens

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“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eye.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

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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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“Be not simply good; be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau

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“Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Always laugh when you can; it is a cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.” – Lord Byron

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“”All the happiness there is in this world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes from preoccupation with yourself.”” – Shantideva

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“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” – Mary Kay Ash

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“A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.” – Laurence Housman

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“A modest man often seems conceited because he is delighted with what he has done, thinking is better than anything of which he believed himself capable, whereas the conceited man is inclined to express dissatisfaction with his performances, thinking them unworthy of his genius.” – Hesketh Pearson

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“A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.” – Louis Nizer

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“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – James Crook

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“A man who dies too rich has lived too poorly.” – Garff Goodbody

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“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.” – Elton Trueblood

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

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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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