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“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.”
― Bessie Anderson Stanley, More Heart Throbs Volume Two in Prose and Verse Dear to the American People And by them contributed as a Supplement to the original $10,000 Prize Book HEART THROBS

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can t coast uphill.”
― Roger Crawford

“Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.”
― Frances Mayes, In Tuscany

“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...”
― Josip Novakovich, Fiction Writer's Workshop

“If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down.”
― Kristin Richter

“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
― Paul Klee

“If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride”
― Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

“We are wiser than we know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.”
― Alma Alexander

“It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.”
― Barack Obama

“Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.”
― Jincy Willett, The Writing Class

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
― Robert Schuller

“I found the poems in the fields,
And only wrote them down.”
― John Clare, The Later Poems, 1837-1864

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
― Joseph Addison

“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In reading we must become creators.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
― Pablo Picasso

“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
― Vince Lombardi

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
― Abigail Adams

“Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.”
― Terry Goodkind