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"Happiness is not so much in having as in sharing. We make a living by what we get but we make a life out of what we give." -Norman MacEwan
"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things." -Ernest Dimnet
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed." -Elbert Hubbard
"Anyone who thinks sunshine is happiness has never danced in the rain." -Author unknown
"I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them." -Beverly Sills
"Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles." -George Eliot
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." -H. Jackson Browne, Jr.
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." -Ruth Fishel
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." -Thomas Jefferson
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down." -Ray Bradbury
"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." -Katherine Mansfied
"What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate." -Henry David Thoreau
"You are not beaten until you admit it." -George S. Patton, Jr.
"Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is." -Barbara Johnson
"Instead of having the rug pulled from under your feet, learn to dance on a shifting carpet." -Thomas F. Crum
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." -Charles A. Beard
"What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope." -George Eliot
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." -Cyril Connolly
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." -Mark Twain
"Writing is the only thing that, while I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." -Gloria Steinem
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." -Cicero
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