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- Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
- How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
- If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson…
- Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what…
- To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
- The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance…
- If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
- We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should…
- Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in…
- I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that…
- Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take…
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