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  • #32
    Neal A. Maxwell
    “What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.”
    Neal A. Maxwell

  • #33
    Calvin Coolidge
    “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
    Calvin Coolidge

  • #34
    Frederick Douglass
    “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #35
    George Bernard Shaw
    “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession

  • #36
    Ovid
    “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
    Ovid

  • #37
    Ovid
    “Nothing is stronger than habit.”
    Ovid

  • #38
    “Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”
    George Scialabba

  • #39
    A.W. Tozer
    “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
    A.W. Tozer

  • #40
    A.W. Tozer
    “What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.”
    A.W. Tozer

  • #41
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #42
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
    Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

  • #43
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #44
    Charlotte M. Mason
    “If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play!”
    Charlotte Mason

  • #45
    Wayne W. Dyer
    “loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.”
    Wayne W. Dyer

  • #46
    Ramana Maharshi
    “Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”
    Sri Ramana Maharshi

  • #47
    Arbinger Institute
    “always remember that it is progress, not perfection, you should be looking for.”
    Arbinger Institute

  • #48
    Pema Chödrön
    “The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
    Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

  • #50
    Deepak Chopra
    “If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”
    Deepak Chopra

  • #51
    “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
    Wilfred Arlan Peterson

  • #52
    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    Alexandre Dumas

  • #53
    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
    Leo Buscaglia

  • #54
    Deepak Chopra
    “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
    Deepak Chopra

  • #55
    Louis L'Amour
    “Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #56
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #57
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #58
    Isabel Allende
    “Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #59
    “When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.”
    Wayne Muller, Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

  • #60
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.”
    Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

  • #61
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.”
    Corrie Ten Boom

  • #62
    Bertrand Russell
    “When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”
    Bertrand Russell



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