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“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: achievement, happiness, wealth, wisdom

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#2

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

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#3

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: learning, mentoring, parenting, teacher

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#4

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning, mentoring

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#5

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#6

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

tags: criticism, help, positive-thinking, praise

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#7

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#8

“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: truth

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#9

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden

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#10

“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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#11

“To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge”
― Ravi Zacharias

tags: atheism, knowledge, supernatural

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#12

“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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#13

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
― Zig Ziglar

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#14

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus

tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth

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#15

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: inequality, kindness, money, poverty, progress, wealth

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#16

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: afford, let-alone, natural, rich, wealth

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#17

“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
― Mahatma Ghandi

tags: felicity, fortune, wealth

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#18

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

tags: admiration, escape, false-standards, impossible, impression, measurement, power, science, success, true-value, underestimate, value, wealth

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#19

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: contentment, wealth

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#20

“Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: education, growing, growth, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring, learning, learning-process, life, life-and-living, school-of-life, teachings, wealth, wisdom, wisdom-quotes

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#21

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom

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#22

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity

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#23

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#24

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

tags: greatness, insanity, intelligence, sanity

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#25

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

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#26

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: imagination, intelligence, reason

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#27

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”
― Dorothy Day

tags: writing

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#28

“God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them”
― Dorothy Day

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#29

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

tags: freedom-of-thought

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#30

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
― Voltaire

tags: books, reading

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