We only get one chance.  Get it right.
~Kevin Spacey
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For as long as you live
and as high as you fly,
for the smiles you give
and the tears that you'll cry,
and all you touch and all you see
is all your life will ever be.
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In life, we do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart
~Confucius
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Don’t waste your youth growing up.
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I always knew that looking back at my tears would make me laugh, but I never thought that looking back at my laughter would make me cry.
~Cat Stevens
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I wish they could only take me as I am.
~Vincent Van Gough
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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
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Experience is not what happens to a man,
it's what a man does with what happens to him.
~Aldous Huxley
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Applaud friends.  The comedy is over.
~Ludwig Van Beethoven
Last words
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In three words I can sum up everything I know about
life. . . it goes on.
~Robert Frost
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.  The pessimist fears it’s true.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
~Katherine Hepburn
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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You can complain because roses have thorns,
or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
~Ziggy
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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.
~Helen Keller
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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
~Moroccan Proverb
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It's true that we don't know what we've got until it's gone,
but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
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Dream as if you'll live forever.  Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
~James Dean
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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
~Beverly Sills
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Fish die belly side upward and rise to the surface.  That’s their way of falling.
~Andre Gide
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If you can't understand my silence, how can you understand my words?
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
~William Shakespeare
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Courage is the art of being the only one that knows you're scared to death.
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.
~Charles DuBois
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
~Helen Keller
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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
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Go, and catch a falling star.
~Donne
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Remember the sunshine when the storm seems unending.
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When we are flat on our backs, the only way to look is up.
~Roger W. Babson
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
~Kahlil Gibran
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Shoot for the moon, for if you fall short, you'll fall amongst the stars.
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Keep your face to the sun, and you cannot see the shadows.
~Helen Keller
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Whenever you are ready to stop telling your emotions what they should be, they will tell you what they really are.
~John Powell
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Without fait, a man can do nothing; with it, all things are possible.
~Sir William Osler
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The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice that which we are for what we could become.
~Charles DuBois
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Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
~Ursula K. LeGuin
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Life's a dance, you learn as you go. Sometimes you lead, sometimes you follow.
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
~William Blake
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One day I will be a responsible adult with a family and a minivan and a mortgage.  But until then, I reserve the right to be a moody obnoxious brat who dresses funny and shows up late for dinner.
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A will finds a way.
~Orison Swett Marden
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Don't lose hope- when it gets darkest the stars come out.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
~Anatole France
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Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
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There is no man who is not at each moment what he has been and what he will be.
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You don’t get to choose how you are going to die.  But you do get to choose how you are going to live.  Now.
~Joan Baez
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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
~Frank Crane
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If your aim in life is nothing, then you can't miss... and you can't win.
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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
~Alexander Hamilton
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The words ‘I am. . .’ are potent words; be careful what you hitch them too.  The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.
~Al Kitselman
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Never look down on anyone unless you're helping him up.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
~Mahatma Ghandi
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You don't get a second chance to make a first impression.
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I am not a has-been.  I am a will be.
~Lauren Bacall
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My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.
~B.A. Billingsly
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People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is only revealed if there is a light from within.
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The creation of a thousand forests lies within one acorn
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
~ Teddy Roosevelt
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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
then your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
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Experience: the most brutal of all teachers.  But you learn, by God, you learn.
~C.S. Lewis
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Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
~Richard L. Evans
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Good timber does not grow with ease.  The stronger the wind, the stronger the tree.
~William Marriott
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On Eve’s last night in the garden, she looked to the moon and realized the world was a wonderful place.  The next night, her opinion had not changed.
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Happiness is not getting what you want.  Happiness is wanting what you get.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
~Graham Greene
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The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes their way.
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All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
~Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin
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When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.  Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.
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It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not.
~Andre Gide
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Of all the words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those. . . it might have been.
~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Don't ever let the world bring you down, be who you are, not who everyone wants you to be.  There is only one true you, let yourself shine.  Be unique and different.  Don't try to wear what everyone else wears and do what everyone else does.  Prove to people that you are an individual.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’
I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
~Sydney Harris
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 We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions,
but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.
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Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
~John Wooden
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Lord, we know what we are, but we know not what we may be.
~Ophelia, Hamlet IV V Shakespeare
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The question is not whether we shall die, but how we shall live.
~Joan Borysenko
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The optimist sees the glass half full. The pessimist sees the glass half empty.  The thirsty person doesn't care and the blind person doesn't see the glass at all.  Which one are you?
~~~
It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
~Diana Ranklin
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The true measure of a man is how treats someone who can do him absolutely no good
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Every man dies.  Not every man truly lives
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Happiness is different from pleasure.  Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
~George Sheehan
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There are no mistakes, no coincidences.
All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge those who fail to try.
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A man is no fool to give up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
~Jim Elliot
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
~Josh Billings
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No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
~Voltaire
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A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
~Randolph Bourne
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. 
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When there is a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it any smaller.
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It is foolish to mourn men who have died.  Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
~George S. Patton Jr.
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Don’t be afraid to take a big step.  You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
~David Lloyd George
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You cannot find yourself, only create yourself.
~Anne Sekel
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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but one word can destroy an entire picture.
~Mark Dixon
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value,
~Albert Einstein
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but it rising each time we do
~Confucius
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Life is like a bicycle: you don't fall off until you stop pedaling.
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Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.
~Jeffery Borenstein
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The soul would have no rainbow if the heart had no tears.
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Live free or die.
~New Hampshire State Motto
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When you’ve danced with her, you stay danced with.
~Fred Astaire (on Ginger Rogers)
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
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 We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~Oscar Wilde
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years.
~Abraham Lincoln
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