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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are Powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson

Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle

Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you,
do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- Anonymous

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
- Meister Eckhart

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Dalai Lama

Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
- Sai Baba

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Anonymous

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Courage

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain

Winners never quit and quitters never win!
- Vince Lombardi

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

Do or do not, there is no try.
- Yoda (Star Wars movie)

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