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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #2
    Paulo Coelho
    “There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
    But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

  • #3
    C. JoyBell C.
    “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #4
    Richard Bach
    “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
    Listen to it carefully.”
    Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

  • #5
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #6
    Steve Maraboli
    “How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #7
    Joel Osteen
    “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”
    Joel Osteen

  • #8
    Steve  Martin
    “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
    Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

  • #9
    Robert Fulghum
    “Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...”
    Robert Fulghum

  • #10
    E.B. White
    “A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."

    [Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
    E.B. White

  • #11
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

    (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Early and Miscellaneous Letters of J. W. Goethe: Including Letters to His Mother. With Notes and a Short Biography

  • #12
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
    Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

  • #13
    “The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.”
    Amy Gatliff

  • #14
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #15
    Tyler Perry
    “You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.”
    Tyler Perry

  • #16
    T.F. Hodge
    “Head up, heart open. To better days!”
    T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

  • #17
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight,
    but they, while their companions slept,
    were toiling upward in the night.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #18
    John C. Maxwell
    “Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
    John C. Maxwell

  • #19
    Anne Lamott
    “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
    Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

  • #20
    Morgan Matson
    “...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...”
    Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

  • #21
    Albert Schweitzer
    “A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #22
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    “Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  • #23
    Deborah Patrick
    “Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.”
    Deborah Brodie

  • #24
    Deborah Day
    “Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.”
    Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!

  • #25
    “If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.”
    Matt D. Miller

  • #26
    Terri Ann Armstrong
    “The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body; use yours to lift someone up today.”
    Terri Ann Armstrong



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