Positive Thoughts

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"Life on the open road is liberty....to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world."

- Isabelle Eberhardt (1877 - 1904)
Swiss explorer and writer

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"Don't give the people what they want, give them something better."

- Entertainment pioneer Sam Rothafel (1882 - 1936)

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"I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail."

- Charles A. Beard (1874 - 1948)
American historians

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"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
English Novelist

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"Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best."

- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
English poet

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"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach (1947)
Author, Speaker, Mom and Philanthropist

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"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
 with your one wild and precious life?"

- Mary Oliver, poem, "The Summer Day" (1935 )
American poet

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"We all have dreams. And we all get disappointed. We all have heartache and we suffer and work to get through it. It's just the human condition. ...So I stand here today so proud. I'm so proud of my team and I'm so proud of myself."

- Diana Nyad, who at age 64 swam 103 miles from Cuba to Florida (1949)
American author, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer

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"Wealth is the slave of the wise man and master of the fool."

- Seneca, Roman philosopher (4 BC - 65 AD)

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"My idea of the modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking."

- Nassim Taleb (1960)
American essayist

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