Quotes

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“There is a word in Pali, "teju," which variously means heat and flame and potency and radiance and splendor. It is the power we embody if we dedicate our lives to the force of kindness, to transforming our intentions.”

- Sharon Salzberg

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“There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.”

- Richard Nelson

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“The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.”

- W. Beran Wolfe

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“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”

- Catherine Aird

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“It is time to bring reasonable and appropriate falling apart into fashion.”

- Beth Miller, M.D.

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“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.”

- George Washington

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“Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.”

- Otto Von Bismarck

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“God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.”

- Ethel Watts Mumford (1878–1940), U.S. novelist, humor writer

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“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

- Michael Jordan

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“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those that I do understand.”

- Mark Twain

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“Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.”

- Lord Chesterfield

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“Make a memory with your children, Take the time in busy days; Have some fun while they are growing, Show your love in gentle ways. ”

- Elaine Hardt

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“I've taken my fun where I've found it.”

- Rudyard Kipling

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“If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

- Mary Pickford

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“No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living.”

- Marie Beynon Ray

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“The great secret of a life of faith is… to hang upon Jesus daily; to go to Him in every trial; to cast upon Him every burden; to take the infirmity, the corruption, the cross, as it rises, simply and immediately to Jesus.”

- Octavius Winslow

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“Don't regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.”

- Unknown