To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings
American Poet
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“All my life I've wanted to be somebody.
But I see now I should have been more specific.”

Jane Wagner
From The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe

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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha
The "Enlightened One"

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“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ”

Luciano de Crescenzo
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain
American Author
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Carpe Diem! Rejoice while you are alive;
enjoy the day; live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.

Horace
Latin Poet
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To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life.

Sir William Osler
Canadian Physician and Teacher
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"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

Henry Drummond
Scottish Author and Clergyman
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We are more than what we do...
much more than what we accomplish...
far more than what we possess.

William Arthur Ward
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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke
American Author and Clergyman
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Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright and Critic
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Og Mandino
Author of Greatest Salesman In The World

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Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love,
time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke
American Author and Clergyman
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

Phillips Brooks
American Episcopal Bishop
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller
American Author and Lecturer
(Blind and deaf since age 2)
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Nothing should be prized more highly
than the value of each day.

Goethe
German Poet
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One SONG can spark a moment
One FLOWER can wake the dream
One TREE can start a forest
One BIRD can herald spring
One SMILE begins a friendship
One HANDCLASP lifts a soul
One STAR can guide a ship at sea
One WORD can frame the goal
One VOTE can change a nation
One SUNBEAM lights a room
One CANDLE wipes out darkness
One LAUGH will conquer gloom
One STEP must start each journey
One WORD must start a prayer
One HOPE will raise our spirits
One TOUCH can show you care
One VOICE can speak with wisdom
One HEART can know what is true
One LIFE can make a difference.

Author Unknown
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can
do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani
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“May you live all the days of your life.”

Jonathan Swift
English Author
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After awhile you learn
the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn that love doesn't mean possession
and company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises and you begin to accept
your defeats with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of an adult not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build your roads today
because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans
and futures have ways of falling down in mid-flight.
After awhile you learn that even sunshine
burns if you get too much so you plant your
own garden and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
that you really are strong
and you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn...

Veronica A. Shoffstall
© Copyright 1971
Spanish Version
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“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet
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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you never walk alone.

We leave you a tradition of the future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw anyone away.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

As you grow older, you'll discover that you have two hands: One for helping yourself, the second for helping others.

You have great days still ahead of you. May there be many of them.

Beauty Secrets
As published in a recent "Dear Abby" column
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“And in the end, it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the life in your years.”

Abraham Lincoln
16th American President
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Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

Ron Wild
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith
Author of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Other Books
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“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

Stephen Covey
Author of 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha
The "Enlightened One"
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick
American Novelist
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This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good."

Author Unknown
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“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese Poet and Novelist
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Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others...
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman
American Poet
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Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach
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"There is no such thing in anyone's life
as an unimportant day."

Alexander Woollcott
American Author
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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."

St. Augustine, 354 430
Early Christian Priest, Author
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"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

Jack London
American Author
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Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine

Buddha
"The Enlightened One:
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"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or
catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."

Dawna Markova
Author of Open Mind.
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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee Expression
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Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it
and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'

The Talmud
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"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Paleontologist and Philosopher
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Political and Spiritual Leader
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"Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke
American Educator
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"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."

David Carradine
Actor, Director
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"To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony."

William Henry Channing
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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Harold Whitman
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"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return."

Mary Jean Iron
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O, with what freshness,
what solemnity and beauty,
is each new day born;
as if to say to insensate man,
'Behold!
thou hast one more chance!
Strive for immortal glory!'

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Other Books
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Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

Mother Teresa
Catholic Nun, Missionary
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
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"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is."

Albert Einstein
German-born Theoretical Physicist

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.
--Mark Twain

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a Heaven for?
--Robert Browning

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
--Erin Majors

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
--Bern Williams

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
--Thoreau

Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, For those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles.
--Sydney Bremer

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.
--Robert Vallett

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

In the Midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
--Deepak Chopra

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
--Leo Burnett

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