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One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful -
Sigmund Freud.

2. Advice is like snow, the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks
into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation;

all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but
religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of
men.

4. The superior man...does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue
whatever is right...The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort. –
Confucius

5. Give me a Team full of passion and I will beat any team full of talent. - Michael Jordan

6. Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What! You, too? I
thought I was the only one'. - C. S. Lewis

7. What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidences an index into his desires --
desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes
against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is
overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something
which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on
the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell

8. Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the
opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to
formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to
choose. - C. Wright Mills

9. Bhagavad-Gita was the first of books; It was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small
or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in
another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which
exercise us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent Van Gogh

11. When you look at the world through the fog of your own worries, your anger, your
frustration and impatience, many valuable things will just pass you by, completely
unnoticed. Imagine driving through town while someone is holding a gun to your head.
Are you gong to notice the new flower shop on the corner? Probably not. Your focus will
be on that gun. - Ralph S. Marston.
12. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We
have created a society which honors the servant, and forgets about the gift. –
Albert Einstein

13. The spice of life is battle; the friendliest relations are still a kind of contest; and if we
would not forego all that is valuable in our lot, we must continually face some other
person, eye to eye, and wrestle a fall whether in love or enmity. –
Robert Louis Stevenson

14. People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel. -Wasmund, Bonnie Jean

15. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the
universe. - Albert Einstein

16. f the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to
smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter
confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are
given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king.
The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton
at the feast is you. - Frederick Buechner

17. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of
character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. -
H.L. Mencken

19. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our
antagonist is our helper. - Edmund Burke

20. Be too flexible and others will bend you; not flexible enough and they will break you.
- K. R. Hutchings

21. I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish
humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by
the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each
honest worker. - Helen Keller

22. Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to
the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that
is not within everybody's power. – Aristotle

23. He only profits from praise who values criticism. -Heinrich Heine
24. We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to
our success. -Henry DavidThoreau

25. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make
you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting. - EE Cummings

26. If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is
the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty
years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent
disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value. - Mark Twain

27. Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those
who are not regarded as members of the herd.-Bertrand Russell

28. The dead never return; the past night does not reappear; a spent-up tidal wave does
not arise anew; neither does man inhabit the same body over again. So from the worship
of the dead past, O man, we invite you to the worship of the living present; from the
regretful brooding over bygones, we invite you to the activities of the present; from
the waste of energy in retracing lost and demolished pathways we call you back to broad
new-laid highways lying very near. He that is wise, let him understand. –
Swami Vivekananda

29. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did
not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney J. Harris

30. Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to
achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter. –
R. F. Horton

31. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and
social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had
to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. - Albert Einstein

32. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't
do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

33. People do not lack strength; they lack will. – Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

34. It's no use to boast of any thing until it's done, nor then, either, for it speaks for itself.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

35. The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling
deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled
by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for
different ways or truer answers. - M. Scott Peck

36. Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much
money without ingenuity. - Arnold Bennett

37. When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the
color-petals out of a fruitful flower. - John Ruskin

38. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and
magic in it. – Goethe

39. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear
and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams

40. When I examine myself and my method of thought, I come to the conclusion that the
gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. -
Albert Einstein

41. If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of
ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at
peace with myself, it has been a successful day. - Alex Noble

42. Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you;
until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not
admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is
in others, you will be neither successful nor happy. - Napoleons Hill

43. The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no
time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do
not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else- we are the busiest
people in the world. - Eric Hoffer

44. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things
undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. - Lin Yutang

45. Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a
future before us we do not live completely in the present. - Phillips Brooks

46. Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the
opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to
formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to
choose. - C. Wright Mills

47. Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep
at night. - Marian Wright Edelman
48. With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and
the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. - Keshavan Nai

49. Learning is experiencing. Everything else is just information. - Albert Einstein

50. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes His creatures, or has a will of
the type of which we are conscious ourselves. - Albert Einstein

51. My husband often told the children that if a man had nothing that was worth dying
for, then he was not fit to live. - Coretta Scott King

52. We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,

and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one
realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward,
forward, or fix us in the present. - Anais Nin

53. What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and
struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at
any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. - Victor Frankl

54. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of
men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright
exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller

55. I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the
things you want to see happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright

56. It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard

57. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires
change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the
ability to satisfy them. - Henry Steele Commager

58. The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of
those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein

59. Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this
gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final
deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life. -
Harry Emerson Fosdick