Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed ― Booker T. Washington

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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — Dalai Lama

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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. -Socrates

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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. ― Euripides

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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do. ― Booker T. Washington

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Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive. ― Jackie Sigmund

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