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Dec
22

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Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person’s position, and then treat that person as if you were him. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.
—Obert C.Tanner

Dec
15

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Without perseverence talent is a barren bed.
—Welsh Proverb

Dec
8

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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s heighbor.
—Eric Hoffer

Nov
27

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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
—Melody Beattie

Nov
24

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Don’t wait for your ship to come; swim out to it.
—Anonymous

Nov
17

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

p.s. Check out the visual representation of this phrase I did with PeopleSketch. Kinda fun.

Nov
10

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It’s so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.
—Wally “Famous” Amos

Nov
3

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Patience can break through iron doors.
—Yugoslav Proverb

Oct
27

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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
—Henry Ford

Oct
20

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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. —Chinese Proverb

Oct
13

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It is a funny thing about life; if you
refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
—Somerset Maugham

Oct
6

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By compassion we make others’ misery
our own, and so, by relieving them,
we relieve ourselves also.
—Thomas Browne

Sep
29

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The music that can deepest reach,
And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sep
22

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There’s life alone in duty done,
And rest alone in striving.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Sep
15

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Diamonds are only chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.
—Minnie Richard Smith

Sep
8

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To be humble to superiors is a duty, to
equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
—Benjamin Franklin

Sep
1

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We are rich only through what we give;
and poor only through what we refuse and keep.
—Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Aug
25

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find
the harder I work the more I have of it.
—Stephen Leacock

Jun
10

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Let me be a little kinder,
Let me be a little blinder,
To the faults of those around me,
Let me praise a little more.
—Edgar A. Guest

Jun
2

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In about the same degree as you
are helpful, you will be happy.
—Karl Reiland