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“investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny

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

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

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

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

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
― Jessamyn West

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.”
― Chris Jirika

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Writing is no answer but when you feel deeply there is little else to do.”
― James Baker Hall

“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“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

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Book I

“For poetry and I are one
To separate is to decapitate
For my poetry is forever.”
― Kerry D. Brackett

“When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.”
― Stephen Richards

“Dipped in chocolate, bronzed in elegance, enameled with grace, toasted with beauty. My lord, she's a black woman.”
― Yosef Ben-Jochannan

“Without you, African mother, there would have been no us--African fathers, sons and daughters. Do we need to say any more African mothers, our own true goddesses! Let us praise you to the highest, telling the world about your righteousness. Let us tell the entire universe about your sacredness African woman.”
― Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan