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“I try to learn from the finite, the lessons of the infinite. ”
ARTHUR YOUNG“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder. ”
GENERAL W.J. SLIM“If I had influence with the good fairy, I would ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. ”
RACHEL CARSON“Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
JOHN STEINBECK“We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ”
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment. We can start now, start slowly, changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make a contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
ANNE FRANK“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”
JIM HENSON“The mind determines what’s possible. The heart surpasses it. ”
PILAR COOLINTA“Leap and the net will appear.”
ZEN PROVERB“You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.”
BONO [PAUL HEWSON]“Be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life's a great balancing act. And will you succeed? Yes! you will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed). Kid, you'll move mountains.”
THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL“Life is better because you know more, not just because you have more.”
ANONYMOUS“You can't lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
JOHN PEERS“The things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. ”
ALEXIS CARREL“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ”
ANTOINE DE SAINTE-EXUPERY“Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.”
UTA HAGEN“I am because you are.”
AFRICAN PROVERB“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
ROBERT BYRNE“What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what gets you out of bed in the mornings, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”
PEDRO ARRUPE“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as a seed goes to the next as a blossom and that which came to me as a blossom, goes on as fruit.”
DAWNA MARKOVA, PH.D“Fill each day with life and heart. There is no pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good person takes in doing good.”
JOHN TILLOSTON“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
ROBERT FROST“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
JOSH BILLINGS“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
UNKNOWN“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. ”
WENDELL BERRY“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you everybody but yourself—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight—and never stop fighting.”
E. E. CUMMINGS“We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. ”
CLAUDE BERNARD“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ”
ALBERT EINSTEIN“Let’s give the historians something to write about”
PROPERTIUS“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will never be shortened. Happiness never ceases by being shared.”
CHINESE PROVERB“If you want trust, trust others. If you want respect, respect others. If you want help, help others. If you want love and peace in your life, give them away. If you want great friends, be one. That’s how it works. ”
DAN ZADRA“Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved. ”
WILL ROGERS“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ”
AL BERNSTEIN