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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
~Booker T. Washington -
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Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
~Zig Ziglar -
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Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
~Cicero -
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Men are born to succeed, not fail.
~Henry David Thoreau -
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There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.
~Abraham Maslow -
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If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
~Les Brown -
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
~Soren Kierkegaard -
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
~Soren Kierkegaard -
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Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
~Soren Kierkegaard -
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
~Soren Kierkegaard -
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
~Soren Kierkegaard -
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Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
~Soren Kierkegaard -
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
~Soren Kierkegaard -
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
~Soren Kierkegaard -
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
~Soren Kierkegaard -
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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
~Abraham Maslow -
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Don't let the bastards grind you down.
~General Joseph W. Stilwell -
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
~Charles Churchill -
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
~Anne Frank -
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
~Jonathan Swift -
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
~Mark Twain -
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
~May Sarton -
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
~Euripedes -
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
~Johann K. Lavater -
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Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
~Saadi
