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“A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.”
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life.”
“The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
“One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.”
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
“Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.”
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.”
“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
“Someone says, Boys will be boys, he forgot to add, Boys will be men.”
“The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forgiving my own character.”
“The meadow: green in spring, gold in summer, brown in fall, white in winter, everlasting, ever-changing!”
“Always be on the lookout for that spark of opportunity that could change your life or someone close to you forever.”
“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”
“Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.”
“Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.”
“The greatest work of art created first by God and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole process is an amazing art in itself. The fact that it takes two artists,man and woman,each bringing their own parts of a pallet to create a work of art that not only has a piece of both artists but is also a living,breathing,ever-changing,piece of art with an identity of it's own.”
“Man is a rope connecting animal and superman - a rope over precipice.. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.”
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