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"be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
-plato

"lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you really want
is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
-Oprah Winfrey

"all things are possible until they are proved impossible."
-Pearl S. Buck

"attitudes are self-created. you are free to choose to be victimized by
circumstance or people, or you can choose to look at life with an open mind
and be victorious. no one else can choose your attitude for you. your
perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control.
that is the essence of true freedom."
-Irene Dunlap

"much is required from those to whom much is given, for their responsibility
is greater." -Luke 12:48

"Remember, happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it
depends soley upon what you think." -Dale Carnegie

"death.
what a great teacher you are.
yet few of us elect to learn from you,
about life.
that is the essence of death's teaching,
life.
death is not an elective.
one day we all will take the class.
the wise students audit the class in early years
and find enlightenment.
they are prepared when graduation day comes."
-Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

"you don't get to choose how you're going to die. or when. you can decide
how you're going to live now." -Joan Baez

"O Christ, that it were possible
for one short hour to see
the sould we loved, that they may tell us
what and where they may be."
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

" One cannot get through life without pain...
what we can do is choose how to use the pain
life presents us." -Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity." -John D. Rockefeller

"today, no one questions whether women are equal to men in ability and intelligence."
-Julie Nixon Eisenhower

"if you don't like the way the world is, you change it. you have an obligation to change it.
you just do it one step at a time." -Marian Wright Edelman

"don't be a coward, fearful and weak
be the last one to quit, and the first one to speak
don't hide your face from the light of day
be courageous in life and stay that way
no need to run from your trial, troubles and problems
have confidence in your step as you reflect how to solve them
yet, if you happen to fall, don't lie there and die
get up without a thought, and hold your head up high
be wise, courageous, bold and brave
and life will be worth living, from your birth to your grave."
-Jereme Durkin

"anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
anyone who keeps learning stays young. the greatest thing in life
is to keep your mind young." -Henry Ford

"teach me to walk and i shall run
teach me to look and i shall see
teach me to hear and i shall listen
teach me to sing and i shall rejoice
for your instructions are imprinted in my mind
and your shared experiences i shall keep
what i have learned, i shall treasure
and by learning to fly
i shall soar!" -Donna L. Clovis

"i expect to pass through life but once. if therefore, there can be any kindness i can
show, or any good thing i can do to a fellow being, let me do it now; and do not defer or
neglect it, as i shall not pass this way again." -William Penn

"a man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what
he makes of himself." -Alexander Graham Bell

"destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. it is not a thing to be
waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryan

"i discovered i always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude."
-Judith M. Knowlton

"whatever failures i have known, whatever errors i have committed...have been the
concequence of action without thought." -Bernard M. Baruch

"the man who knows right from wrong and has good judgement and common sense is
happier than the man who is immensely rich! for such wisdom is far more valuable than
precious jewels." _Prov. 3:13-15

"we cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. but we can decide
what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really
counts in the end. how to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and
beauty - that is the test of living." - Joseph Fort Newton

"i am the force; i can clear any obstacle before me, or i can be lost in the maze. my
choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only i hold the key to my destiny."
-Elaine Maxwell

"the place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands...."
-Robert M. Pirsig

"i will speak to youth which can accomplish everything, precisely because it accepts
no past, obeys no present and fears no future." _Rudyard Kipling