Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

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Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in. ― Lynsay Sands

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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa

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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life. ― Steven Wright

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Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way are better. ― Tim Howard

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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

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You have succeeded in life when all you want is only what you need. —Vernon Howard

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Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

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Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

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