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  • #1
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle

  • #2
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates

  • #3
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    ― Langston Hughes

  • #4
    John Lennon
    “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
    ― John Lennon

  • #5
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift

  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #7
    Paulo Coelho
    “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Chad Sugg
    “If you're reading this...
    Congratulations, you're alive.
    If that's not something to smile about,
    then I don't know what is.”
    ― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

  • #10
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren

  • #11
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #12
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey

  • #13
    Paulo Coelho
    “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #15
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life

  • #16
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life

  • #17
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #18
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #19
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

  • #20
    Trisha Yearwood
    “What's meant to be will always find a way”
    ― Trisha Yearwood

  • #21
    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    ― Maya Angelou

  • #22
    Walt Disney Company
    “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
    ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan

  • #23
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow

  • #24
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #25
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln

  • #26
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

  • #27
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #28
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #29
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

  • #30
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi



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