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The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
~ James Yorke

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
~ Terry Pratchett

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving � not giving and taking.
~ Joyce Grenfell

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
~ Helen Keller

The past is to be learnt from, not lived in.
~www.emofree.com

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
~ Aristotle

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
~ Francois Fenelon

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
~ James Freeman Clarke

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
~ Edith Wharton

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~ Count Leo Tolstoy

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
~ James Buckham

We grow accustomed to the Dark �
When light is put away �
As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp
To witness her Goodbye �

A Moment � We uncertain step
For newness of the night �
Then � fit our Vision to the Dark �
And meet the Road � erect �

And so of larger � Darkness �
Those Evenings of the Brain �
When not a Moon disclose a sign �
Or Star � come out � within �

The Bravest � grope a little �
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead �
But as they learn to see �

Either the Darkness alters �
Or something in the sight
Adjusts itself to Midnight �
And Life steps almost straight.
~ Emily Dickinson

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
~ Dr. Seuss

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell

A Night � there lay the Days between �
The Day that was Before �
And Day that was Behind � were one �
And now � 'twas Night � was here �

Slow � Night � that must be watched away �
As Grains upon a shore �
Too imperceptible to note �
~ Emily Dickinson

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin

Between the form of Life and Life
The difference is as big
As Liquor at the Lip between
And Liquor in the Jug
The latter - excellent to keep -
But for ecstatic need
The corkless is superior -
I know for I have tried
~ Emily Dickinson 1101

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

... when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
~ Micah 7: 8

Knowledge speaks,
but wisdom listens.
~ Jimi Hendrix

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
~ Victor Hugo

Forever nameless
Forever unknown
Forever unconceived
Forever unrepresented
yet forever felt in the soul.
~ D. H. Lawrence, "Belief"

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.
~ Lise Hand, describing Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, who was killed as a result of her investigations of Irish organized crime.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
~ Charles M. Schulz

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
~ Psalms 51:10

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll

There's a Hole in My Sidewalk;
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters.

                              I:
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost�I am helpless.
It is not my fault.
It takes forever to find my way out.
                              II:
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don�t see it.
I fall in.
I can�t believe I am in the same place.
But it isn�t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
                              III:
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it there.
I still fall in�It�s a habit...But my eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
                              IV:
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
                              V:
I walk down another street.
~ Portia Nelson from the book, There�s a Hole in My Sidewalk; The Romance of Self-Discovery

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler

Ask not for victory, ask for courage. For if you can endure you bring honor to us all, even more you bring honor to yourself.
~ From the Decathlete

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
~ Douglas Adams

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but 'That's funny...�
~ Issac Asimov

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
~ George Eliot

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
~ Thomas H. Huxley

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~ Plato

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
~ David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher

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