Courage

“Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain.”
~ Diane de Pointiers.
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Recommit

"If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again."
~ Sharon Salzberg.
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Your Unique Talent

"Use your talent (everybody has one) in anyway you can. Don't keep it for yourself like a Miser - spend it like a Millionaire!"
~ Lucy MacDonald.
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Perseverance

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
~ Walter Elliott.
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The Essence of my Being

"If the Essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart, then in living I have made my mark."
~ Thomas L. Odem Jr.
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Friend

"Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up my life. But I'd rather find my moon...someone who can shine on me during my darkest hours."
~ Dennis Gallemit.
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Courage & Talent

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
~  Sir William Alton Jones.
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Forgive Others

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed."
~ Ann Landers.
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Happiness

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
~ Frederick Keonig.
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Happy Independence Day

"Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge...  At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom."
~ Jawaharlal Nehru.
On the eve of independence, August 15 1947.
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India

"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!"
~ Romaine Rolland, French scholar.
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Let Go

"Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself."
~ Deborah Reber.
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Be Yourself

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
~ Dr. Seuss.
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Strength & Courage

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage."
~ Lao Tzu.
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Alone

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer.
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Love

"If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."
~ James M. Barrie.
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Heart

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
~ Charles Dickens.
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Religion

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
~ Edward Gibbon.
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People & Religion

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
~ Steven Weinberg.
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Atheism

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."
~ Mark Twain.
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