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#1

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#2

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

tags: forgiveness, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world

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#3

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time

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#4

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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#5

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#6

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#7

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#8

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life

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#9

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

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#10

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

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#11

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin

tags: funny, humanity, humor

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#12

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness

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#13

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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#14

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes

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#15

“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: growing, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, learning, life-and-living, life-lessons, love, people, real-love, reality, reality-of-life, those-who-love-us, to-be-loved, true-love, what-matters

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#16

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: love, mercy

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#17

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: faith, humanity, ocean

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#18

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes

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#19

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering

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#20

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing

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#21

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom

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#22

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: control, defeat, humanity, life

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#23

“We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.”
― George Carlin

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#24

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

tags: humanity, life

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#25

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

tags: equality, feminism, humanity, men, women

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#26

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion

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#27

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: humanity, humility, mistakes, strength, wisdom

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#28

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind

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#29

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, humanity, sadness

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#30

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

tags: compassion, humanity, love, mankind

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