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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller
Great Long Duty Small Noble Were Accomplish Chief Task Tasks
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. Helen Keller
Happiness Consume No-One Without Producing Right
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau
Sad Regret Live Tend Never Most Sorrow Make Till Smother Cherish Integral Interest Regrets Separate Your Deeply
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Henry David Thoreau
Love You Own Bone Do What You Love Know Still Gnaw What You Love Bury Your
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. James Allen
Inspirational Truth Man Guidance People Will Master Own Others Wills Seek He Him Himself Learn Command His Cannot Mold Who Coerce Serve Things
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. Joseph Campbell
Sad Joy World Live We Cannot Participate Joyfully Sorrows Cure Cannot Choose
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts. Marianne Williamson
Thoughts Key Meeting Unlimited Circumstances Abundance Limited
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain
Tell Know Most Stop Children Information Interesting Then
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. Mark Twain
Good Man Books Advantage Over Read Does Cannot Them Who
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. Mark Twain
Communication Words Fire Only Look Itself Painted
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. Mark Twain
History Fluid Written Merely Very Which Prejudice Ink
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson
Knowledge Integrity Dangerous Weak Dreadful Without Useless
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Victor Hugo
Together Valentines Day Kiss Rose Trees Birds Summit Shapes Dawn Hill Sing Does Said How Came Lips Snow Did Behind Unfolds Happen Stark
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. Victor Hugo
Heart Son Father Lover Stars Father's Day Brother Affections Friend Heaven Room
I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. William P. Young
Love God Forgiveness Grace Affection Believe Easter Inspiration Really Deep
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?' A. A. Milne
Words Long Difficult Lunch Easy About Someone Rather More Like Talk Short Use Who Fun
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. Aesop
Will Evil Ruin Destroy Seed Up Your Grow Grow Up
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. Alice Walker
Life Dreams You Fight Emotions Worth Feelings Living Cares Worth Living Want Your Expresses Deepest
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott
Life Truth Good You People Problem Illusion Power Enjoy Spend Circumstances Out Find About Over Look How Odd Been Precious Precious Life Trying Taste Going Whether Creating Your Who
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. David Brin
Power Corrupts Corrupts Power Other More True Attracted Attracts Said Than Sane Actually Things
We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe. Don Miguel Ruiz
Mirror Believe Our System See Only Like Hear Just Want Us Shows Belief
Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end. Eckhart Tolle
Life People Treat Live Entire Entire Life Only True Stepping Stepping Stone Opposite Were End Itself Stone Happens Next Means Your Moment Present Present Moment
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot
Loneliness Lonely Distrust More Than
When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening. Glennon Doyle Melton
People Human Being Listening Defensive Way Seek Only Take Over Disarm Another Understand Opinions Understood Curious Human Differ Being Yours Express Grow Chance
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller
Death Me You Other See Able More Shall Know Another Because Passing Than Difference Room
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau
Disappointment Will Every Enough Find Shall Ready Quiet Compensation
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