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- 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
- Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."
- Halford E. Luccock
- Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
- George Woodberry
- The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- 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)
- Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance
- Bruce Barton
- Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
- James F. Clarke
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