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  • #1
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #2
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    Kent M. Keith
    The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #7
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #8
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #9
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Aesop
    “It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.”
    Aesop

  • #13
    Aesop
    “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
    Aesop

  • #14
    Aesop
    “Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.”
    Aesop, Aesop's Fables

  • #15
    Aesop
    “Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
    Aesop

  • #16
    Aesop
    “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
    Aesop

  • #17
    Aesop
    “Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
    Aesop, Aesop's Fables

  • #18
    Aesop
    “A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.”
    Aesop

  • #19
    Aesop
    “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
    Aesop, Aesop's Fables

  • #20
    Aesop
    “Little by little does the trick.”
    Aesop

  • #21
    Aesop
    “Once a wolf, always a wolf.”
    Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

  • #22
    Aesop
    “Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.”
    Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

  • #23
    Aesop
    “Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.”
    Aesop

  • #24
    Aesop
    “Wise men say nothing in dangerous times”
    aesop

  • #25
    Aesop
    “The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”
    Aesop

  • #26
    Aesop
    “There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.”
    Aesop

  • #27
    Aesop
    “Servants don't know a good master till they have served a worse.”
    Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

  • #28
    Aesop
    “Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.”
    Aesop

  • #29
    Aesop
    “It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it”
    aesop

  • #30
    Aesop
    “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
    Aesop



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