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    Kent M. Keith
    “ The Paradoxical Commandments

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
    Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
    Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
    Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
    Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
    Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
    Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
    Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
    Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
    Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
    Give the world the best you have anyway.”
    ― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
    tags: forgiveness, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
    tags: essential, happiness, love
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    ― Allen Saunders
    tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans
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    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Paulo Coelho
    “If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
    tags: forgetting, hope, love, pain, suffering, waiting
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  • #8
    One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply
    “One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist”
    ― Stephen Hawking
    tags: imperfect, imperfection, making-mistakes, mistakes, perfectly-imperfect, universe
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    Bruce Lee
    “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: appreciation, change, gratitude, inspirational, life, live-now, motivational, success, today
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    Sam Keen
    “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
    ― Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved
    tags: learn, love, perfect, person
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    ― L.M. Montgomery
    tags: beginnings, fresh-start, inspirational, mistake, mistakes, new-day, start-over, tomorrow
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  • #13
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: attitude, choice, giving, happiness, inspirational, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivational, positive-affirmation
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    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: alone
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: achievement, believe-in-yourself, brave, courage, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, talent
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    Jason Fried
    “What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
    ― Jason Fried, Rework
    tags: actions, deeds, inspirational, work-ethic
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    Lao Tzu
    “Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: actions, character, destiny, habits, thoughts, words
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    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder
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    Socrates
    “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: marriage
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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  • #23
    “Try to pause each day and take a walk to view nature.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
    tags: advice, daily-life, flowers, gardens, harmony, healthy-habits, inspirational, lifestyle, nature, observation, pause, philosophical, positive, seasons, take-a-break, walking
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: dreams, fearless, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, mind, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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  • #25
    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    ― Virginia Woolf
    tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth
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  • #26
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let everything happen to you
    Beauty and terror
    Just keep going
    No feeling is final”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: enjoy-life, fearlessness, live-in-the-moment
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
    tags: art, good-life, music, poetry, self-improvement
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    Germany Kent
    “Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”
    ― Germany Kent
    tags: all-is-well, all-is-well-with-my-spirit, every-day-is-a-good-day, every-day-life, everyday, everyday-faith, everyday-life, everyday-quotes, germany-kent, germany-kent-quote, germany-kent-quotes, good-life, good-life-advice, good-life-goodness, good-life-quotes, hope-guru, inspired-living, inspired-mind, inspired-soul, inspired-thoughts, let-go, letting-go, life, life-and-living, life-lesson-quotes, life-lessons-value-of-life-truth, life-philosophy-inspirational, life-philosophy-quotes, life-quotes, life-quotes-and-sayings, mind-body-spirit, mind-power, mindfulness, mindset, motivation, motivational, new-beginning, new-beginnings, new-beginnings-quotes, new-chapter, new-chapter-quotes, next-level, outlook-and-attitude, outlook-in-life, personal-development, personal-development-quotes, personal-growth, personal-transformation, perspective, perspective-on-life, perspective-quotes, positive-attitude, positive-life, positive-mindset, positive-motivation, positive-outlook, positive-quotes, positive-thinking, positive-thoughts, positivity, self-awareness, self-awareness-quotes, self-improvement, self-motivation, self-talk, spirit, spiritual, spiritual-development, spiritual-growth, spiritual-insights, spiritual-life, spiritual-quotes, spiritual-wisdom, stay-positive, stress-management, the-hope-guru, transformation-quotes, transformation-spirituality, transformational, transformational-speakers, worth-it, worth-quotes, worthiness, you-are-worthy
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