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“No one can really predict to what heights you might soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.”
Gil Atkinson
“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”
William Hazlitt
“The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”
John Ruskin
“It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”
Mae Jemison
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“You know the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing you don't put tomato in a fruit salad.”
Miles Kington
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
Marcel Proust
“That’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can.”
Andrew Iskander
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
Princess Diana
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
Steve Maraboli
“When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
“Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’”
Haile Selassie
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
Noam Chomsky
“It’s not that optimism solves all of life’s problems; it is just that it can sometimes make the difference between coping and collapsing. ”
Lucy MacDonald
“One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
Anna Freud
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
Jane Austen