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“Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”
 
Dr. Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998);
Professor, Author
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 01/12/09
“Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.”
 
John J. McCloy (1895-1989);
Lawyer, Banker


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 10/26/09
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
 
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915);
American Political Leader, Author
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Index_card_top “Spring ushers in the birth and growth of new beginnings. Summer develops and matures new life in the warmth of light. Fall celebrates life and displays inspiration through color. Winter then rests and builds for the new day, preparing for the next season.”
 
Jaren L. Davis -
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Index_card_top “Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
 
Alex Tan -


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Index_card_top “I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union 'Twixt Nature's heart and mine.”
 
George Linnaeus Banks (1821-1881);
Writer


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Index_card_top “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
 
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745);
Satirist
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Index_card_top “Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”
 
Joel A. Barker -


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Index_card_top “When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
 
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922);
Inventor
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Index_card_top “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955);
Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner
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Index_card_top “We shall not cease from exploration; And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.”
 
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965);
Poet, Critic
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Index_card_top “Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”
 
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682);
Scholar, Essayist
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Index_card_top “The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.”
 
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963);
35th Us President
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Index_card_top “Variety is the spice of life.”
 
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Index_card_top “I will speak to a youth which can accomplish everything, precisely because it accepts no past, obeys no present, and fears no future.”
 
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936);
Poet, Author
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Index_card_top “Our grand duty is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
 
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881);
Essayist, Satirist, Historian
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Index_card_top “Make hatred hated!”
 
Anatole France (1844-1924);
Critic, Writer
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Index_card_top “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
 
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008);
Science Fiction Author, Inventor


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Index_card_top “Imagination is the true magic carpet. ”
 
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993);
Preacher, Author
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Index_card_top “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stifled. I want all the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.”
 
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948);
Indian Political And Spiritual Leader
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Index_card_top “Nothing that has ever been thought and said with a clear mind and pure ethical strength is totally in vain; even if it comes from a weak hand and is imperfectly formed, it inspires the ethical spirit to constantly renewed creation.”
 
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942);
Writer


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Index_card_top “To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others…that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”
 
Clifford Geertz (1926-2006);
Anthropologist


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Index_card_top “I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see. And pursuing that vision.”
 
Howard Schultz (born 1953);
Businessman, Entrepreneur
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Index_card_top “Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.”
 
Edward de Bono (born 1933);
Psychologist, Physician


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Index_card_top “The tears of faithfulness to your beliefs cleanse your spirit to envision the road ahead. Everything is possible for the person who believes.”
 
Adlin Sinclair - Motivational Author, Humanitarian


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Index_card_top “What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
 
Henry Miller (1891-1980);
Author, Writer
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Index_card_top “To keep from getting too far ahead of myself, I can apply to life what I've learned from running in the woods: The step in front of you is the most important one.”
 
Annie Morris - Mom, Runner, Writer


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Index_card_top “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
 
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964);
1st Prime Minister Of India


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 09/29/10
“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.”
 
Saint Augustine (354-430);
Roman Catholic Saint
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 12/30/10
“You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.”
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955);
Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 01/10/11
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
 
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855);
Novelist
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“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. ”
 
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968);
Minister, Civil Rights Activist
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 03/18/11
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ”
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955);
Theoretical Physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner
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“We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ”
 
William Shakespeare (1564-1616);
Dramatist, Poet
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 08/26/11
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 12/15/11
“People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it-walk.”
 
Ayn Rand (1905-1982);
Writer, Philosopher
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 05/09/12
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ”
 
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862);
Naturalist, Author, Philosopher
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 08/22/12
“Be daring, be different, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers...”
 
Cecil Beaton (1904-1980);
Academy Award Winning Designer And Photographer


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 01/01/13
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice. To make an end is to make a beginning.”
 
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965);
Poet, Critic
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 01/31/13
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”
 
Steve Jobs (1955-2011);
Co Founder Apple Inc.
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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 04/24/13
“If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.”
 
Bede Jarrett (1881-1937);
Writer


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