thought provoking

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- Source Unknown

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
-- Al Neuharth


There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
-- Charles F. Kettering


Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
-- William Shakespeare

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
-- Booth Tarkington


To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render
it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber


Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain
constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
-- Herb Brody

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Never take a decision when you are angry .. never make promises when you are happy.


Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett


It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default. ~ J. K. Rowling,

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

Marilyn Ferguson

What matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life

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Our behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.

Look at the word responsibility- " response-ability" the ability to choose your response. Proactive people do not blame circumstances,conditions,or conditioning for their behaviour. Their behaviour is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feelings.

Stephen Covey

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No one can hurt you without your consent

Eleanor Roosevelt

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place

Gandhi

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday

[faithful]

There's always a little truth behind every "just kidding"... A little knowledge behind every "I don't know"... A little emotion behind every "I don't care"... And a little pain behind every "it's okay".

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"Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past,stop planning the future, stop trying to figure out precisely how we feel, and sometimes we just have to say:"whatever happens happens"."

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A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on
silence.
-- Leopold Stokowski


If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I
have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a
man who found it easy to divorce either.
-- Source Unknown

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his
end is in sight.
-- Elias Canetti

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
-- Jeff Marder

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"When did ignorance become A point of view?" ~ Dilbert Cartoon

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You cannot have the fruits without the roots

The most important ingredient we put in any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

Do onto others as you would have others do onto you

Stephen Covey

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It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Leo Roskin

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than
the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows
it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter
whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be
running.
-- Source Unknown

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
-- Cummings

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and
the poor who have the magnamity of the rich.
-- Saadi

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One ship drives east and another west,
With the self same winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales,
that tell us the way to go.
Like the wind sof the sea are he ways of the fate;
as we voyage along through life,
'Tis the set of a soul that decides its goal,
and not the calm, or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox