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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.”
― Cary Grant

“Be the change you want to see in the world”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
― Buddha

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.