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“Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

“Anger Is A Gift”
― Aristotle

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
― Plato

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”
― Aristotle

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.”
― Aristotle

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”
― Plato

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us”
― Aristotle

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
― Maya Angelou

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“Choice not chance determines your destiny

[my family motto...credited to Aristotle]”
― Aristotle

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”
― James Madison

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life