"The fragrance, my friend, that floats to you this moment, streams from the tent of the secrets of God." -Rumi |
"The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities."
-George Eliot |
"To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." -Helen Keller
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"See into life-don't just look at it."
- Anne Baxter |
"Challenges come so we can grow and be prepare for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on."
- Iyanla Vanzant |
"It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing- especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can't buy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person."
- Billie Jean King
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"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living"
-Anais Nin
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"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get-only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything."
- Katherine Hepburn |
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality."
- Ellen Glasgow
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"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm." - Cicely Tyson |
"I wish for those I love this New Year an opportunity to earn sufficient, to have that which they need for their own and to give that which they desire to others, to bring into the lives of those about them some measure of joy, to know the satisfaction of work well done, of recreation earned and therefore savored, to end the year a little wiser, a little kinder, and therefore a little happier."
-Eleanor Roosevelt |
"Redefine the word "fail" There is no failure in life other than not trying. If you want something badly enough, make an attempt.
If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get sacred. They're afraid to fail. Take word out of your vocabulary. You didn't "fail".
You tried your best."
- Jane Seymour |
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
- Susan B. Anthony
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"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
- Margaret Lee Runbeck |
"Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth."
- Gustave Flaubert
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"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get-only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything."
- Katherine Hepburn |
"To learn as we grow old the secrets of our soul."
- Justin Hayward, singer/songwriter |
"No dream is ever lost if we never cease to try..."
- Justin Hayward & John Lodge, singers/songwriters
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind!." - William Blake, writer
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"Nothing is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
-Marie Curie |
"He who knows what is enough, Will always have enough."
- Tao |
"It's either easy or impossible"
- Salvador Dali, artist |
"Life is short; Live it up!"
- Nikita Khrushchev |
"Just what you want to be, you will be in the end."
- Justin Hayward, singers/songwriters
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| "May you live every day of your life." -Jonathan Swift |
Between your government, your employer, and your spouse, the only aspect of your life you really have any control of is your attitude. If you can't control that, you shoudn't go outside."
-Blufx |
"Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue."
-Gustave Flaubert, letter (1846) |
"Not all Angels can grow wings, they seem to soar by other means."
- Ray Thomas, The Moody Blues |
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
- John Lennon, singer/songwriter |
"Enjoy what you can, endure what you must."
- Goethe |
"Nobody ever died of laughter." -Max Beerbohm |
"Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed." -Kathryn Kuhlman
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'I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens
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