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- Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
- Pamela Vaull Starr
- You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]
- Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!
- Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
- An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
- Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- The Buddha
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
- Pamela Vaull Starr
- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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