"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."
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"I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not."
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"The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood."
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"In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world."
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"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
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"You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future"
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"I want to live my life, not record it."
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"Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom"
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"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
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"I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life."
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"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
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"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."
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"Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow."
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"It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it."
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"Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out."
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"It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it."
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"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."
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"Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you"
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"Anger is one letter short of danger."
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"We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success."
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