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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward

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The book you don’t read won’t help. - Jim Rohn

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami

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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. - Frederick Douglass

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Who has not served cannot command. - John Florio

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Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. - Mignon McLaughlin

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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. - Clarence Day

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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. - Richard Cecil

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He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. - William R. Alger

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Real riches are the riches possessed inside. - B. C. Forbes

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Nothing can be done except little by little. - Charles Baudelaire

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. - David Viscott

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Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into you life, said "I'm here for you" and proved it.

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Let me tell you this: The most valuable lessons I've had in my life have all come via people and events that really HURT.

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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. - Charles R. Swindoll

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Confidence isn't "They will like me", confidence is "I'll be fine if they don't".

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Don't judge people for the choices they make when you don't know the options they had to choose from.

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Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And the best people give you memories.

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Stand up and walk. Move forward. You have two beautiful legs, don't you? You don't need to rely on anything. - Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

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It's not about how big the house is. It's how happy the home is.

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Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already.

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Life doesn't allow us to go back and fix what we have done wrong in the past, but it does allow for us to live each day better than our last.

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The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

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Wise people are not always silent, but they know when to be.

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I've never met a strong person with an easy past.

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I love those random memories that make you smile no matter what's going on in your life right now.

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Real friendship is when your fiend comes over to your house and then you both just take a nap.

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Meditation... because some questions can't be answered by Google.

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Open-minded people do not impose their beliefs on others. They just accept all of life's perspectives and realities, doing their own thing in peace without judging anyone.

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Loneliness is dangerous. It's addicting. Once you see how peaceful it is, you don't want to deal with people.

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It doesn't matter if it's a relationship, a lifestyle, or a job. If it doesn't make you happy, let it go.

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Positive people also have negative thoughts. They just don't let those thoughts grow and destroy them.

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When a woman is loved correctly, she bocomes ten times the woman she was before. - Reyna Biddy

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Love is not what you say. Love is what you do.

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Being polite is so rare these days that it's often confused with flirting.

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The problem with closed-minded people is that their mouth is always open.

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Be silly. Be fun. Be different. Be crazy. Be you, because life is too short to be anything but happy.

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Keep in mind that someone else is happy with a lot less than what you have.

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Sometimes you have to experience what you don't want in life to come to a full understanding of what you do want.

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Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment, because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.

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There are a million different ways to say "I love you". "Put your seat belt on." "Watch your step." "Get some rest." You just have to listen.

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Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge. - Carl Jung

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In the end, people will judge you anyway, so don't live your life trying to impress others. Live your life impressing yourself.