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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.
The sun don't shine forever, but as long as it's here, then we might as well shine together.
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.
Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?
Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.
If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!
There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
To begin living like you've never lived before, begin living like you've never lived before.
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
May you grow to be proud, dignified, and true, and do unto others as you'd have done to you.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.
A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.