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  • #1
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #2
    Joyce Meyer
    “I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be.”
    Joyce Meyers, Woman to Woman: Candid Conversations from Me to You

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Lisa Kleypas
    “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
    Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

  • #5
    Tobe Hanson
    “Life is a continuum of problems to solve and lessons to learn. Once you accept this truth, then the problem you’re facing is no longer a problem but rather an opportunity to learn.”
    Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth

  • #6
    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #7
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowing others is intelligence;
    knowing yourself is true wisdom.
    Mastering others is strength;
    mastering yourself is true power.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #8
    Stephen R. Covey
    “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #9
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #10
    Stephen R. Covey
    “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #11
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
    Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

  • #12
    Stephen R. Covey
    “It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #13
    Stephen R. Covey
    “My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't love her anymore and she doesn't love me. What can i do?"
    "The feeling isn't there anymore?" I asked.
    "That's right," he reaffirmed. "And we have three children we're really concerned about. What do you suggest?"
    "love her," I replied.
    "I told you, the feeling just isn't there anymore."
    "Love her."
    "You don't understand. the feeling of love just isn't there."
    "Then love her. If the feeling isn't there, that's a good reason to love her."
    "But how do you love when you don't love?"
    "My friend , love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #14
    Stephen R. Covey
    “If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.”
    Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #15
    Stephen R. Covey
    “At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #16
    Hafez
    “And still, after all this time,
    The sun never says to the earth,
    "You owe Me."

    Look what happens with
    A love like that,
    It lights the Whole Sky.”
    Hafiz

  • #17
    Hafez
    “I wish I could show you,
    When you are lonely or in darkness,

    The Astonishing Light
    Of your own Being!”
    Hafez, The Divan

  • #18
    Hafez
    “What Do sad people have in Common? It seems They have all built a shrine To the past And often go there And do a strange wail and Worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being So religious Like That.”
    Hafez

  • #19
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #20
    Stephen R. Covey
    “As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #21
    Stephen R. Covey
    “How you treat the one reveals how you
    regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #22
    Stephen R. Covey
    “There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #23
    Stephen R. Covey
    “It comes from within.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #24
    Stephen R. Covey
    “People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #25
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #26
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    Robin Sharma
    “Give out what you most want to come back.”
    Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

  • #29
    Robin Sharma
    “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”
    Robin S. Sharma

  • #30
    Robin Sharma
    “Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it,”
    Robin S. Sharma, Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari



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