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- Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Herman Cain
- Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
- Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
- The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
- Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude
- We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), The Dharmapada
- Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
- Graham Greene, The Human Factor (1978)
- Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- John Dykes
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- William Hazzlitt
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