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- When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
- Charles A. Stoddard
- All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- "Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
- Austin Farrar
- When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
- Haniel Long
- Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
- Nido Qubein
- The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
- Bertrand Russell V. Delong
- To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
- George Woodberry
- It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Charles Dudley
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self.
- Carl Rogers
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