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- To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self
- Madame Neckar
- Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.
- William Dean Howells
- Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
- Jerome P. Fleishman
- If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
- Bob Conklin
- What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
- Norman Douglas
- What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.
- Tyron Edwards
- The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
- Author Unknown
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