"Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope."
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"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."
"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion."
"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."
"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
"Remember the saying, What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger? It's true!"
"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
"Who said nights were for sleep?"
"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come."
"Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity."
"Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
"I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring."
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."