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When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't. — David Copperfield
If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day… — Tony Robbins
Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for… — Melody Beattie
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a… — Matthieu Ricard
Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those… — Martin Seligman
Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness.… — Dalai Lama
Acceptance means focusing on the present while assessing the choices available to you in this moment. If there are many possibilities, make the choice that… — David Simon
When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must… — Sheena Iyengar
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities… — Mark Twain
Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step… — Jimmy Carter
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources… — Margaret Mead
To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with… — Philip Kapleau
My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it. — Sandra Bullock
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest. — Judith Guest
Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart,… — Margot Anand
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind. — Maria Montessori
Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of… — Ralphie May
Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we… — Marcello Malpighi
As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly… — Thomas Carlyle
There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is… — John F. Kennedy
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they… — Samuel Johnson
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from… — David Lloyd George
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live — William Shakespeare

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