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~ My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ~


~ I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers. ~


~ Forget injuries, never forget kindness. ~


~ No place is more delightful than one's own fireside. ~


~ Joy is not in things; it is in us. ~


~ Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ~


~ Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ~


~ Ask not what tomorrow may bring, but count as blessing every day that Fate allows you. ~


~ Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy. ~


~ Happiness or unhappiness is often a matter of choice. ~


~ Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ~


~ Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. ~


~ Whether you believe you can do a thing or believe you can't, you are right. ~


~ My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~


~ Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events ... it is from numberless acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. ~


~ The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day. ~


~ Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? ~


~ It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ~


~ To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. ~


~ Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. ~


~ The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. ~


~ When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~


~ Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ~


~ Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. ~


~ Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. ~


~ The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. ~


~ Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. ~


~ Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ~


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


~ Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. ~


~ Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. ~


~ Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ~


~ We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. ~


~ No on should abandon duties because he sees defects in them. Every action, every activity, is surrounded by defects as a fire is surrounded by smoke. ~


~ The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept,/ Were toiling upward in the night. ~


~ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. ~


~ We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. ~


~ Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. ~


~ A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. ~


~ A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing. ~


~ Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like heaven above. ~


~ Never mistake motion for action. ~


~ All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. ~


~ Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. ~


~ Your time may be limited, but your imagination is not. ~


~ Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. ~


~ If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~


~ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ~


~ I have a dream. ~


~ Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. ~


~ Don't start living tomorrow, tomorrow never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today. ~


~ Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose. ~


~ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~


~ Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose. ~


~ Knowing your destination is half the journey. ~


~ believe every person is created as the steward of his or her destiny with great power for a specific purpose to share with others, through service, a reverence for life in a spirit of love. ~


~ All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do. ~


~ Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap adestiny. ~


~ It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men. ~



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