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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

William Arthur Ward

If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.
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Help Love Yourself
What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress.
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Believe Important Inspirational Live Yourself
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.
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Anger Direction Focus People Problem Wisdom
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.
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Problem Reality Recognition Value
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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Feeling Gift Gratitude Health Light Morning Night
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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Death Defeat End Failure
Happiness is an inside job.
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Happiness Job One Liner
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
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Day Live
Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.
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Break Reality Trust
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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Explanation Goodness Greatness Inspirational
Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
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Carry Design Hard Time Man Moments Pain Philosophy
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
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Learning Thinking
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
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Learning Wisdom Word
Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.
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Accomplishment Challenge Death Experience Failure Honesty Ourselves
Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: ‘Choose ye this day.’
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Challenge Greatness Opportunity Ourselves Present Word
The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
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Attitude Patience Understand

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