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I don't pretend to understand the Universe — It's a great deal bigger than I am.
— Thomas Carlyle
The winds of grace blow all the time, all we need to do is set our sails.
— Ramakrishna
The problem with many things is the pre-conceived ideas we have about them! — Shantidharm
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. — Doris Mortman
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. — Marianne Williamson
Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. — William Feather
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. — Willa Cather
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — Andre Gide
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. — Galileo
Time is what keeps things from happening all at once. — Author unknown
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Goethe
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. — Agatha Christie
Every morning when I get up, the first thing I decide is: What do you want? Misery? Blisfullness? What are you going to choose today? And it happens that I always choose blissfulness. It is my choice, it is my life. Abdullah
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature. — William Rotsler
Every man dies, not every man really lives. — William Wallace
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. — Albert Einstein
No one ever has it "all together". That's like trying to eat once and for all
—Marilyn Grey
The conquest of fear yeields the courage of life. — Joseph Campbell
Judgment and love are opposites. From one come all the sorrows of the world. But from the other comes the peace of God Himself. — A Course In Miracles

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  To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches. — Cicero

I will get further along in my path today, if I don't stop to trip others — Author unknown

Obstacles are timing mechanisms designed to put you in the right place at the right time. — Author unknown

If you are going to worry, don't do it. If you do it, don't worry. — Michael Nolan

You never grow old until you've lost all your marvels! —Merry Browne

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Tolstoy

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light. — Neal A. Maxwell

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. — English proverb

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop. — Winston Churchill

In the space age the most important space is between the ears. — Anne Armstrong

My life is like a stroll on the beach, as near the ocean's edge as I can go. — Henry David Thoreau

Not all those who wander are lost. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries. — John Tyndall

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. — Albert Einstein

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes the ice melt, kindess causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. — Albert Schweitzer

You've got to dance like nobody's looking, and love like it's never going to hurt. — Ann Wells

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. — Henry Ford

t has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. — Albert Einstein

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. — Henry Poincare

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. — Edith Wharton

An man should not fear death; he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. — Confucius

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. — Anne Sullivan

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. — Bill Cosby

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. — Diana Black

The only true widsom is in knowing you know nothing. — Socrates

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. — Tecumseh

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. — Galileo

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. — Susan Ertz

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. — Bill Watterson

Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child. — Godfried Bomans

Let things happen naturally and do not try to force a certain outcome. That which is not natural will not be right. Lao Zi

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. — B. F. Skinner

Sitting silently doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Basho

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Khalil Gibran

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. — Abraham Lincoln

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Be yourself — who else is better qualified? — Frank J. Giblin II

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more the give, the more they posess. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. — James Baldwin

The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. — Witter Bynner

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde

Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. — Anton Chekhov

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