Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. — Thomas A. Edison

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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

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Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. — Lucille Ball

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Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. You are doing better than you think.

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You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

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Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. — Bette Davis

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I'm the smartest at 8 A.M. I wake up at 6, drink three cups of Awake Tazo Tea and read five newspapers. I have to think up something every day, Monday to Friday. — John Waters

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