Positive Thoughts

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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
English Novelist and Clergyman

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[Fishmanpa]

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

- Malcolm Forbes
(1919-1990) American Publisher

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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
American Writer

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"The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be - quoted in Cicero, 44 BC."

- Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek Philosopher

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[KatiePink]

"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today." - E. Joseph Cossman

If you can't remember, think about if it was really much to worry about..

[Fishmanpa]

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."

- Emiliano Zapata
(1879-1919) Mexican Revolutionary

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"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice" - Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, 1966.

- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)
American Attorney General, Senator

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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962) American First Lady and Political Activist

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"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

- Alexander Pope
(1688-1744) English Poet

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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."

- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
English Journalist and Economist

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