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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Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

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The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

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Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. _ Mary Lou Retton

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Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

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Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values. - Terry Southern

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She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

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No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

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One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west. ― Malcolm X

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