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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

—Plutarch

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

—Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

—Thomas Carlyle

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The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

—Edward Clarke

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It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

—Kahlil Gibran

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Buy the ticket take the Ride

—Hunter S. Thompson

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People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

—Elizabeth Moon

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Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.

—Hugh Macleod

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I have seen flowers come in stony places/ And kind things done by men with ugly faces/ And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,/ So I trust too.

—John Masefield

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It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

—George Washington

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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

—Winston Churchill

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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

—Seneca

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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

—John Muir

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If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

—John Atkinson

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Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

—Alice Munro

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