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| Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas à Kempis, |
| You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~ Steven D. Woodhull |
| What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, |
| Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~ Albert Camus, |
| Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~ Allison Gappa Bottke |
| Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson |
| If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. ~ Jim Rohn |
| In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~ Liz Armbruster |
| See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~ Pope John XXIII |
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| Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~ Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros |
| Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? ~ Coleman Cox |
| Laziness will cause you pain. ~ Slogan on T-shirt worn at the Vee Arnis Jitsu School of Self-Defense |
| If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~ Toni Morrison |
| Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~ Max Lerner, |
| Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~ Author Unknown |
| Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~ Brecht |
| [O]wning your burdens is half the battle. ~ From the television show |
| Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~ Victor Hugo |
| We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ~ William James |
| You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~ Leo Aikman |
| Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~ Frank Herbert, |
| The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. ~ Plato |
| Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~ Jonathan Kozel |
| Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~ Frances Willard |
Always when judging
Who people are,
Remember to footnote
The words "So far."
~ Robert Brault |
| God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me. ~ Author unknown |