In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer. – Henry David Thoreau

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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Nelson Mandela

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if you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets.

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.- Paul Bettany

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

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