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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”
― Oliver James

“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for”
― Oliver James

“Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.”
― Earl Nightingale

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“ 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

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

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

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

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
― Marilyn Monroe