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- Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
- Reggie Leach
- Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
- Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
- Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
- Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
- Audrey Giorgi
- You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
- Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), to her daughter, Liza Minelli
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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