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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you dream, you can create.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
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Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Talk not of the river or lake
To those who have looked on the sea.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Joy is a Choice - but Not an Easy Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Be open to the goodness of life -
even in the midst of apparent adversity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be heroic,
Don't emulate your heroes,
learn from them.
Heroes don't follow anyone,
they set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Everything has rhythm. everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Dance like no one is watching,
love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like no one is listening.
Live life like it's heaven on earth.
- Anonymous (various attributions and alternate phrasings)
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't go through life - grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous
Ride the storm. Cheer wildly.
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Follow your bliss and doors will open
where there were no doors before.
- Joseph Campbell
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
In forgiveness you grant, and more so
in the forgiveness you receive.
- Terry Goodkind
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
The happiness of one's own heart alone
cannot satisfy the soul;
one must try to include,
as necessary to one's own happiness,
the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
Dream. Begin. Persevere.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Do not think that love,
in order to be genuine,
has to be extraordinary.
What we need is to love without getting tired.
- Mother Teresa
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common.
Celebrate it every day.
- Anonymous
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
One bold inspiration choreographs a dance with promise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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