"Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful."- Confucius
"It's OK to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation."
- Helen Keller
"Be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others; even the dull and ignorant. They, too, have their story."
"The only true failure in life is to stop trying."
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
"Be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others; even the dull and ignorant. They, too, have their story."
- Author unknown - dated 1692.
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be."
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be."
- Socrates
"The only true failure in life is to stop trying."
- Author Unknown
"The possibility that we may fail in the struggle should not deter us from supporting a cause we believe to be just."- Abraham Lincoln
"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones."
"The possibility that we may fail in the struggle should not deter us from supporting a cause we believe to be just."- Abraham Lincoln
"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones."
-Old Chinese Proverb
"Mistrust all in whom the desire to punish is imperative."
"Mistrust all in whom the desire to punish is imperative."
- Goethe
"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud."
"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud."
- Carl Jung
"And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, evolve some distant day into the answer."
"And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, evolve some distant day into the answer."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
-Louis
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it. This you have the power to revoke."
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it. This you have the power to revoke."
- Marcus Aurelius
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
"We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented."
"We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented."
- James Martineau
"To live at all is miracle enough."
"To live at all is miracle enough."
- Mervyn Peake
"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Experience is the toughest teacher because she gives the test first, and then the lesson."
"Experience is the toughest teacher because she gives the test first, and then the lesson."
- Unknown
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
- Somerset Maugham
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I never take counsel of my fears." - General George Patton
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." Joan Baez
"I never take counsel of my fears." - General George Patton
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." Joan Baez
"Arise, awake and don't stop until the goal is achieved."
- Swami Vivekananda
"I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it."
"I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it."
- Sidney Poitier
"You can tell a great deal about a society by the way they treat their elderly, their prisoners and their pets." Unknown
"By perseverance the snail reached the Ark."
"You can tell a great deal about a society by the way they treat their elderly, their prisoners and their pets." Unknown
"By perseverance the snail reached the Ark."
- Charles Spurgeon
"To life's simple pleasures, and its finer things: may we always have the wisdom to appreciate all of the former, and the means to afford a few of the latter."
"To life's simple pleasures, and its finer things: may we always have the wisdom to appreciate all of the former, and the means to afford a few of the latter."
- Laura L. Hirschfeld
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