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“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”

“I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.”

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

“Thats the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”

“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”

“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”

“Error is discipline through which we advance.”

“Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.”

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”

“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”

“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.”

“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”

“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

“True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.”

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”

“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.”

“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”

“Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.”

“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”

“All is flux; nothing stays still.”

“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

“You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.”

“Never mistake activity for achievement.”

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”

“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”

“Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.”

“God always takes the simplest way.”

“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”

“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”

“The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.”

“Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.”

“All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.”

“Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.”

“When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.”

“If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.”

“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”

“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.”

“Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.”

“Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.”

“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”

“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

“Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

“I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.”

“Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is.”

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”

“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”

“We are going through hard times now. The enemy is within us but it is invisible. We are one nation, we have one religion but there is no accord between us.”

“The only thing is to be original. You have to be yourself.”

“The desire to be perfect. Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona—to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.”

“Hope is not a strategy.”

“I believe in the beauty of spontaneity.”

“The less we depend on each other, the less connected we become.”

“Pride is the worst enemy of love.”

“The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to”

“I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.”

“A person's authentic character is revealed the moment he gets angry.”

“When your body decides to give itself to someone, your mind has already decided so.”

“Debt can rob you of your future because you are using the money you earn today to pay off things from the past”

“The worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it.”

“A wonderful relationship consists of two people who manage to become children again. Living and loving each other as teenagers in one way: purely.”

“Be wary of those who deceive: it is the worst species on the planet.”