If I had a wish that I could wish for you...
I'd make a wish for sunshine all the while.
-- John Denver
The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed, and while
I'm making up my bed, I'm making up my mind as to what kind
of day I'm going to have.
-- Robert Frost
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?  -- Thomas Beddoes
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as
it was when you came in.  
-- James Baldwin
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The test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how
we behave when we don't know what to do.  
-- John Holt
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all art and all science.  He who can pause to
wonder and stand rapt in awe is truly alive.  
-- Albert Einstein
He who would be useful, strong and happy must cease to be a receptacle
for the negative and fearful streams of thought; as a wise householder
commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to
command his thoughts and to say, with authority, what he shall admit
into the mansion of his soul.  
-- James Allen
A gentle word is never lost, it cheers the heart and lulls
the cares that bruise it.  
-- Hastings
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy
you can hold.  
-- Kahlil Gibran
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he
becomes a conformist.  
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That so few now dare to be eccentric non-conformists marks
the chief danger of our time.  
-- John Stuart Mill
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but set
about remedying them; every day, begin the task anew.
-- Saint Francis de Sales
Each person's map of the world is as unique as his thumbprint.
There are no two people alike.  No two people who understand
the same sentence in the same way.  
-- Milton Erickson
You have your way.  I have my way.  As for the right way, the correct
way, the only way...it does not exist.  
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.  
-- Robert Frost
It is the individual only who is timeless.  Societies, cultures and
civilizations are often incomprehensible to outsiders.  But the individual
human being's hungers, anxieties, dreams and preoccupations have
remained unchanged through the millennia.  
-- Eric Hoffer
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