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  • #1
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #2
    Aristotle
    “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”
    Aristotle

  • #3
    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #4
    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!”
    Maya Angelou

  • #7
    Maya Angelou
    “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #8
    Maya Angelou
    “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #9
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #10
    Emil Dorian
    “Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.”
    Emil Dorian, Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937-1944

  • #11
    Nikki Rowe
    “Your attitude will either make or break you, we cannot change fate and the tragedies that enter our lives but we can choose how we want them to change us.”
    Nikki Rowe

  • #13
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #14
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #15
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #16
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #17
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #18
    Lao Tzu
    “In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #19
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Your beliefs become your thoughts,
    Your thoughts become your words,
    Your words become your actions,
    Your actions become your habits,
    Your habits become your values,
    Your values become your destiny.”
    Gandhi

  • #20
    Sean Covey
    “We become what we repeatedly do.”
    Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

  • #21
    Aristotle
    “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
    Aristotle

  • #22
    Aristotle
    “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
    Aristotle

  • #23
    Aristotle
    “I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
    Aristotle

  • #24
    Aristotle
    “PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.”
    Aristotle

  • #25
    Plato
    “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

  • #26
    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

  • #27
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    William Shakespear, Hamlet

  • #28
    Albert Einstein
    “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #31
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
    Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith



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