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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: gratitude
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    Charles Dickens
    “Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
    tags: blessings, gratefulness, misfortunes, reflection
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational, motivational, women
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, literature, reading, reality
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: busy-learning, competence, job-doing, productivity
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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
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  • #7
    “Consensus is horrible. I mean, if everyone really agrees on something and consensus comes about quickly and naturally, well that’s terrific. But that isn’t how it usually works, and so consensus becomes an attempt to please everyone.”
    ― Jossey-Bass, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
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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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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
    tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
    tags: attitude, inspirational
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    Studs Terkel
    “Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
    ― Studs Terkel
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    James MacGregor Burns
    “In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.”
    ― James MacGregor Burns
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    tags: faith, god, wisdom
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: giving, goals, goals-in-life, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, learn, learning, life, life-quotes, light, light-and-darkness, living-life, meaning, meaning-of-life, meaningful, meaningful-life, wisdom, wise
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    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom
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    John Keats
    “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
    ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats
    tags: art, depression, growth, life, pain, suffering, wisdom
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    Bram Stoker
    “We learn from failure, not from success!”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    Francesca Gino
    “When we challenge ourselves to move beyond what we know and can do well, we rebel against the comfortable cocoon of the status quo, improving ourselves and positioning ourselves to contribute more to our partners, coworkers, and organizations”
    ― Francesca Gino, Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life – A Harvard Professor's Guide to Innovation and Unconventional Success
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    William Arthur Ward
    “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
    ― William Arthur Ward
    tags: curiosity, leadership, mentoring, teachers, teaching
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    Mother Teresa
    “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa
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    Mother Teresa
    “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: happiness
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    Mother Teresa
    “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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    Mother Teresa
    “At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
    We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: activism, service
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
    ― W.E.B. DuBois
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.”
    ― W.E.B. Du Bois
    tags: inspirational-quotes, qoutes-to-live-by
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    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this — with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell.”
    ― W. E. B. Dubois
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo
    tags: adventure, love, romance
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
    ― Saint Augustine
    tags: morality, right-and-wrong
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