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"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."

"Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel."

"Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break."

~ H. G. Wells

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"Never make a decision when you need to pee."

"Where is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

"I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere."

"To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older."

~ Leonard Cohen

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"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem."

"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head."

~ Emil Zatopek

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"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."

"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

"You can never be wise unless you love reading."

~ Samuel Johnson

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"We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light."

"Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap."

~ Hildegard of Bingen

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"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

"The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it."

~ Robert H. Schuller

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"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."

"A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day."

"Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think there's a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there."

~ B. B. King

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"We all lose our looks eventually, better develop your character and interest in life."

"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."

~ Jacqueline Bisset

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"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."

"Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it." ~

Jesse Owens

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"Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today."

"My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy."

"When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful."

~ Pierre de Ronsard

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"Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart."

"Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be."

~ Jean Vanier

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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

"If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life."

~ Leo Tolstoy

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"If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth."

"This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!"

~ Sivananda

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"Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love."

"Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself."

"When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease."

~ Elizabeth I

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"The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality."

"Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality."

~ Robert M. Pirsig

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"The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality."

"The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills."

~ Arthur Koestler

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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."

"The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world."

"The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts."

~ Robert South

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"The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers."

"A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan."

~ Zitkala-Sa

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"Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others."

"It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress."

"True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete."

~ Okakura Kakuzo

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"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them."

~ Lily Tomlin

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"Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves."

"The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life."

"Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle of water; and when the grass of the meadows is wet with dew, let them run on it and trample it with their bare feet; let them rest peacefully when a tree invites them to sleep beneath its shade; let them shout and laugh when the sun wakes them in the morning.

~ Maria Montessori

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"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

~ Theophile Gautie

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"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone."

~ Marcus Aurelius

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"If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better."

"Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family."

"We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean."

~ Elizabeth Ann Seton

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"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

"We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart."

~ Sam Levenson

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"Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons."

"If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway."

~ Mother Teresa

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R.I.P. Timothy 'Tim' James Curry (19 April 1946 – 25 August 2026)

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"I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to."

"I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like."

~ Tim Curry

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"It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams."

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."

"A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers."

~ Leonard Bernstein

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R.I.P. (Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean) Dolly Parton - January 19, 1946 – August 25, 2026

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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

"Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more."

"If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning."

~ Dolly Parton

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"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."

"If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless."

~ William Wilberforce

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"There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."

"He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day...needs to reorganize his life"

~ George Matthew Adams

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"Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera."

"It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head."

"One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul."

~ Hei Cartier-Bresson

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"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it."

"Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others."

~ Wilferd Peterson

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"The first duty of love is to listen."

"One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life."

"You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!"

~ Paul Tillich

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"Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside."

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

"It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class."

~ Coco Chanel

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"There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers."

"I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live."

~ Rosalynn Carter

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"If you TRY, and you just BELIEVE, you CAN; you WILL."

"I've always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That's the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself."

~ Hayden Panettiere

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"What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience."

"Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that."

~ Saint Francis de Sales