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Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ~Ruth E. Renkel

 

 

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Traditional thinking is all about what is. Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.~ Edward de Bono

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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid .~Audre Lorde

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~Galileo Galilei

 

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Happiness is different from pleasure.  Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. ~George Sheehan

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Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday. ~Ray Kroc

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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. ~Johnny Cash

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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. ~M. Scott Peck

 

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It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. ~Lana Turner

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When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.~ Marilynne Robinson

 

 

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Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.~ Carolyn Hax

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. ~Goethe

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First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. ~George Balanchine

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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. ~John Steinbeck

 

 

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The elevator to success is broken. You'll have to take the stairs. ~ Joe Girard

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We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.~ Helen Hayes

 

 

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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ~Horace

 

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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. ~Miguel de Cervantes

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Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven. ~Wendy Wasserstein