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• The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Booker T. Washington (2015). “Up from Slavery: Top Biography”, p.109, 谷月社

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• A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Happiness, Smile

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• Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Mean, Knowing

  Twitter post from Jan 04, 2013

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• Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

  Anya Seton

  Inspirational, Mountain, Path

  Anya Seton (2016). “The Turquoise”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Character, Choices, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Nov 14, 2015

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• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892) act 3

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• If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. It is enough that I must die alone. I am determined to let down my walls, whatever the risks, if it means that I may have whatever is there for me.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Wall, Mean, Self

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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• I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

  Jack Handey

  Hate, War, Mind

  "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey, Berkley Publishing Group, 1992.

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• Greed is permanent slavery

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Wisdom, Greed

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• There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 15, 2014

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

  David Viscott

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

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• We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

  Manly Hall

  God, People, Atoms

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• To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

  Pablo Casals

  Love, Relationship, Unique

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• Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Struggle, Acceptance

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.21, Penguin

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• Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

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• Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Luxury, Assets, Built

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 27, 2012

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• When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

  Hugh Prather

  Mistake, Words Of Wisdom, Listening

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.38, Bantam

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• The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Answers, Majesty

  Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) ch. 27

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Dust, Soul

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• The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

  Simon Sinek

  Business, Believe, People

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Feb 02, 2015

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• If you want this life to stop breaking your heart, stop giving your heart to this life.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Giving, Want

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