"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."
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"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
"The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them."
"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves."
"Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life."
"Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!"
"Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet"
"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable."
"Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you."
"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."
"Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it."
"To understand everything is to forgive everything."
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
"There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid."
"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
"When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished."
"I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful."
"Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one."