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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #3
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #4
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #5
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #6
    John Grisham
    “Life is short..Live to the fullest..”
    John Grisham, The Runaway Jury

  • #7
    John Grisham
    “You live your life today,
    Not tomorrow,
    and certainly not yesterday.”
    John Grisham

  • #8
    Laura Restrepo
    “Guerra o indiferencia, no se sabe cuál de las dos es más fácil de lidiar.”
    Laura Restrepo, Delirio

  • #9
    Paulo Coelho
    “When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
    Paulo Coelho, Brida

  • #10
    Yann Martel
    “Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.

    I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #11
    Yann Martel
    “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #12
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

  • #13
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

  • #14
    Dean Koontz
    “Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.”
    Dean Koontz, One Door Away from Heaven

  • #15
    Dante Alighieri
    “He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
    Dante Alighieri

  • #16
    The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
    “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
    Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: cats

  • #17
    Juan Ramón Jiménez
    “I am not I.
    I am this one
    walking beside me whom I do not see,
    whom at times I manage to visit,
    and whom at other times I forget;
    who remains calm and silent while I talk,
    and forgives, gently, when I hate,
    who walks where I am not,
    who will remain standing when I die.”
    Juan Ramon Jimenez

  • #18
    Shelby Van Pelt
    “Some trees aren’t meant to sprout tender new branches, but to stand stoically on the forest floor, silently decaying.”
    Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

  • #19
    Shelby Van Pelt
    “You can't fix someone who is determined to stay broken.”
    Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

  • #20
    Kristin Hannah
    “In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #21
    Kristin Hannah
    “They think talking about a problem will solve it.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #22
    Kristin Hannah
    “I want to imagine there will be peace when I am gone”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #23
    Kristin Hannah
    “What was love when put up against war?”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #24
    Kristin Hannah
    “A single diamond brooch was her only adornment (one good piece”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #25
    Kristin Hannah
    “the failing of a student to learn is the failing of the teacher to teach.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #26
    Kristin Hannah
    “she didn’t want to think about that on such a gorgeous day”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #27
    Kristin Hannah
    “knoll”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale



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