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The following are quotes from people that I admire and have learned much from. Many of these people overcame great adversity in their lives despite the odds. Many are certainly visionaries. May they illuminate your path and make your choices worthwhile.

To live content with small means,
to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion,
to be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich.

To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly,
to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart,
to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions,
hurry never.

In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common.

This is to be my symphony.

- William Henry Channing

I am always doing things I can't do; that's how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso

When you lose, do not lose the lesson. Dalai Lama

The best things in life aren't things. Art Buchwald

A seeker after truth cannot afford to be an egotist. One who would sacrifice his life for others has hardly time to reserve for himself a place in the sun. Mahatma Gandhi

The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke, Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Henry David Thoreau

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Kahlil Gibran

Perhaps once in a hundred years a person may be ruined by excessive praise, but surely once every minute someone dies inside for lack of it. Cecil G. Osborne

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. Maya Angelou

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert F. Kennedy

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much. Helen Keller

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. Dave Tyson Gentry

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions. Dag Hammarskjold

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank

Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. Kahlil Gibran

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest of thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. Albert Schweitzer

Throughout the ages, man has persisted largely on thoughts and promises. But to prosper in the future, one cannot ignore, but must in fact embrace, the inner sanctions of freedom, self-worth and tolerance for others. James R. Bates, philosopher

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill

Strong reasons make strong actions. William Shakespeare

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein

We must become the change we want to see. Mahatma Gandhi

Always vote for principle. Though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy

The best way to destroy an enemy is by making them a friend. Abraham Lincoln

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. Mark Twain

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato

Every exit is an entrance somewhere else. Tom Stoppard, playwright

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. Louisa May Alcott

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, philosopher and author

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau

I think that somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. Eleanor Roosevelt

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy. Jennie Jerome Churchill, writer and mother of Sir Winston Churchill

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Lena Horne, actress, singer

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost

The way to become boring is to say everything. Voltaire

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. Dale Carnegie

If it's not fun, why do it? Ben Cohen, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers. Maya Angelou

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. Aristotle

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. John Homer Miller

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy. Jennie Jerome Churchill, writer and mother of Sir Winston Churchill

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Lena Horne, actress, singer

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost

The way to become boring is to say everything. Voltaire

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. Dale Carnegie

If it's not fun, why do it? Ben Cohen, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers. Maya Angelou

A true friend is one soul in two bodies. Aristotle

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver, US chemist, educator

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and exaltation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived -- this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facts are the enemy of truth. Don Quixote

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might. Marian Anderson, opera singer

I wasn’t going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test – even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there. Alex Haley, author

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion, you’re wasting your life. Jackie Robinson, professional baseball player

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes – goodwill among men and peace on earth. Albert Einstein

Two paths diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

Maturity is when you stop doing the things you make excuses for and stop making excuses for the things you need to do. Unknown

It's the special things in life that make it mean so much. The sun, the rain the sky; the thoughts and the touch. If we let these precious things float out to endless sea, we lose our hope, our love and all our reason to be. Unknown

There must be more to life than sitting there wondering if there is more to life. Unknown

Humor is just another defense against the universe. Mel Brooks

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. R. Pirsig

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind. Dr. Seuss

If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what was yesterday? Unknown

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. James Dean

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. Mary Pickford

It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. George Burns

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. Margaret Mead

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. H. Jackson Browne

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain

We feel we are greater than we know. Walt Whitman

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Oliver Wendall Holmes *(I've also seen this credited to Emerson)*

What you acheive through the journey of life is not as important as who you become. Unknown

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. Hans Margolius

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein

I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso

In wisdom gathered over time, I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams, photographer

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau, author

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