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While I don’t think we can live your life by simply following the quotations of others, my feeling is that we can learn a thing or two from insightful statements made by thought leaders. Please enjoy:
“We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.” Bill Clinton
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.” John Burroughs
“I will seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion. I will seek to be worthy more than respectable, wealthy and not rich. I will study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly. I will listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with an open heart. I will bear all things cheerfully, do all things bravely await occasions and hurry never. In a word I will let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.” William Ellery Channing
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.” Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” Ambrose Redmoon
“Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law…it’s nine tenths of the problem!” John Lennon
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would be peace.” John Lennon
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.” James Taylor
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