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"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home."
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
"When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"
"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
"When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted"
"Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person."
"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
"It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere."
"For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others."
"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
"Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water."
"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."