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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
The gods help them that help themselves. – Aesop
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. – Aesop
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. – John D. Rockefeller
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. – Pythagorus
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. – John D. Rockefeller
Write in your heart that this is the best day of your life . ralph waldo emerson – George Santayana
When you think positive, good things happen! – George Santayana
Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana
Love yourself! It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out! – George Santayana
Keep Walking......Define Yourself By Where You Are Headed! – George Santayana
Letting go of discouragement is no more difficult than holding on to it; and letting go is so much more empowering. – George Santayana
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. – George Santayana
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana
Forget the past and live the present hour. – Sarah Knowles Bolton
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. – Sarah Knowles Bolton
And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls. – T. S. Eliot
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. – T. S. Eliot
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. – Clarence Darrow
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. – Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. – Dale Carnegie
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. – Dale Carnegie
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. – Dale Carnegie
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. – George Orwell
Dream your life and live your dream! – Gordana Biernat
Fulfilling your dreams is not a luxury, but a purpose in life. The whole point of imagination is to make dreams real. – Gordana Biernat
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. – Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. – Emily Dickinson
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. – Helen Keller
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. – Helen Keller
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die. – Roosevelt, Eleanor
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give. – Roosevelt, Eleanor
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Roosevelt, Eleanor
There is no wealth but life. – John Ruskin
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. – John Ruskin
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. – John Ruskin
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. – John Ruskin
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. – John Ruskin
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. – John Ruskin
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. – John Ruskin
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. – John Ruskin
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is what can do without success. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. – Mae West
You don't marry one person you marry three . the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you. – Richard Needham
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. – Walt Whitman
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. – Walt Whitman
I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious. – Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself. – Walt Whitman
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. – Walt Whitman
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. – Edith Sitwell
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell
Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon. – Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. – Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. – Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. – Mark Twain
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. – Mark Twain
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. – Madame de Maintenon
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. – Christopher Morley
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. – Christopher Morley
Dare to be naive. – Richard Buckminster Fuller
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. – Mark Twain
He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great adversary suffices and who can dispense with success. Life for him was an adventure, perilous indeed, but men are not made for safe havens. The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory. – Edith Hamilton
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way ... people look at reality, then you can change it. – James Arthur Baldwin
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be. – James Arthur Baldwin
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth. – Blaise Pascal
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. – Blaise Pascal
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. – Blaise Pascal
The way to become boring is to say everything. – Voltaire
Anything too stupid to be said is sung. – Voltaire
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. – Voltaire
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. – Benjamin Franklin
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. – Benjamin Franklin
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. – Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. – Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of. – Benjamin Franklin
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. – Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. – Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. – Benjamin Franklin
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. – Benjamin Franklin
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. – Benjamin Franklin
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. – James Thurber
It's a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. – James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. – James Thurber
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. – James Thurber
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. – Kahlil Gibran
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. – Kahlil Gibran
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. – Kahlil Gibran
The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. – Kahlil Gibran
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. – Mignon McLaughlin
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. – Mignon McLaughlin
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. – Mignon McLaughlin
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. – Mignon McLaughlin
It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere. – C. S. Lewis
I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. – C. S. Lewis
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. – C. S. Lewis
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. – C. S. Lewis
You are never too old to dream a new dream or set another goal. – C. S. Lewis
I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen. – C. S. Lewis
Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods. – C. S. Lewis
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. – Jules Renard
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it. – Jules Renard
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. – Mark Twain
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. – Jim Rohn
Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become. – Jim Rohn
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. – W. Somerset Maugham
To write simply is as difficult as to be good. – W. Somerset Maugham
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. – W. Somerset Maugham
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. – W. Somerset Maugham
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. – William Hazlitt
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. – Robert Frost
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. – Robert Frost
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. – Napoleon Hill
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. – Napoleon Hill
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. – Steven Wright
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. – Steven Wright
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? – Steven Wright
You lose it if you talk about it. – Ernest Hemingway
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. – Marcus Aurelius
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximumutilization of the ability that you have. – Zig Ziglar
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. – Zig Ziglar
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
You don't have to be great at something to start, but you have to start to be great at something. – Zig Ziglar
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. – Cicero
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. – Cicero
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind. – Cicero
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. – Cicero
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. – Cicero
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection. – Josiah Gilbert Holland
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. – Josiah Gilbert Holland
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others. – Robert G. Ingersoll
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. – Robert G. Ingersoll
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten--happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. – Brenda Ueland
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created. – Brenda Ueland
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. – Brenda Ueland
When you start imagining how you want your life to be, you invite the possibilities in to your Reality. – Gordana Biernat
Thoughts are vibrations sending invitations, summoning things, pulling strings, fixing the stage for you to engage in the play of life. – Gordana Biernat
The Universe is your partner in creation. What YOU ask for The Universe will provide. Speak up. Be bold. Let The Universe hear YOU. – Gordana Biernat
The more inner power you gain the less outer control you allow. – Gordana Biernat
Old habits and old behaviors never present new results! – Gordana Biernat
It does not matter who you WERE. All that really matters is who you ARE. – Gordana Biernat
The wise understand without judging. The ignorant judge without understanding. – Gordana Biernat
Ideas are etheric like dreams. Use them NOW they will escape from your Reality. – Gordana Biernat
You cannot change your reality if you think someone else is responsible for it. – Gordana Biernat
YOU are only as FREE as you IMAGINE yourself to BE. – Gordana Biernat
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. – George Bernard Shaw
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. – George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... – George Bernard Shaw
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. – George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. – George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap. Being a force of Nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. – George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. – George Bernard Shaw
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. – George Bernard Shaw
I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self. – Aristotle
A friend is a second self. – Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity. – Aristotle
A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher. – Aristotle
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. – Aristotle
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. – Aristotle
Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. – Lois McMaster Bujold
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place." – Jennifer Aniston
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. – Henry David Thoreau
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. – P. J. O'Rourke
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity. – Dan Custer
At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored. – Nathan C. Schaeffer
Beautiful thoughts precede a beautiful life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. – Walt Whitman

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

– Aesop

The gods help them that help themselves.

– Aesop

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

– Aesop

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

– John D. Rockefeller

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

– Pythagorus

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

– John D. Rockefeller