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“The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.”
― Brian Tracy

“Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
― Lois Wyse

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. ”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.”
― Rania Al-Abdullah

“Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books -- they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future and a past.”
― Esther Meynell

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.”
― James Russell

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”
― Helen Hayes

“if you want to convince children of the power of books, don’t tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.”
― Roger Sutton

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
― Madeleine Albright

“The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.”
― Anna Quindlen, Loud and Clear

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ”
― Malcolm X

“Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we had more time...If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower.”
― Richard O'Connor, Happy at Last: The Thinking Person's Guide to Finding Joy

“Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”
― Harry Emerson Fosdick

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
― Gerald R. Ford

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson