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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
    tags: reading
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
    tags: excellence, mediocrity
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
    tags: enjoy-life, life, religion
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    Gordon B. Hinckley
    “Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.”
    ― Gordon B. Hinckley
    tags: lds, religious
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    Thomas S. Monson
    “Choose your love. Love your choice.”
    ― Thomas S. Monson
    tags: choices, love
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    Thomas S. Monson
    “Don't save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.”
    ― Thomas S. Monson
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    Thomas S. Monson
    “Work will work when wishy washy wishing won't.”
    ― Thomas S. Monson
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    Thomas S. Monson
    “Youth need less critics and more models.”
    ― Thomas S. Monson
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    Thomas S. Monson
    “Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help?”
    ― Thomas S. Monson, Pathways to Perfection: Discourses of Thomas S. Monson
    tags: service
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    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Mother Teresa
    “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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    Mother Teresa
    “God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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    Mother Teresa
    “I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: agape, love, metaphor, paraphrased
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    Mother Teresa
    “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.”
    ― Mother Teresa
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: fighting, hurt, inner-peace, peace, permission, strength, trial
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    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
    tags: actions, habits, values
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    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
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    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    ― Bill Keane
    tags: attributed-no-source, hope, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt, past, present, widely-misattributed
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    ― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
    tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
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    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
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    Neil Gaiman
    “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
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45235 likes



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