"Goodness is the greatest force in the world."
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"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
-- Pythagoras
"Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant." -- Saadi
"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present." -- M. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." -- Bertrand Russell
"When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one." -- Mark Twain
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition." -- Sir William Osler, to his students
"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life." -- W.E.B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957
"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions." -- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, March 17, 1911
"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable." -- Andre Gide
"It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." -- Kahlil Gibran, "On Giving," The Prophet, 1923 "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped on link at a time." -- Sir Winston Churchill
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." -- Rodin
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." -- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation." -- William Hutton
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." -- George Bernard Shaw
"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it." -- Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B.C.
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." -- Bruce Barton
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
-- Malcolm X
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