The more you have, the more you’re occupied; the less you have, the more free you are.” — Mother Teresa

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When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.” — W.J. Slim

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” — Kahlil Gibran

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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.” –Homer

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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” — Chinese proverb

You must retain faith that you can prevail to greatness in the end, while retaining the discipline to confront the brutal facts of your current reality.  – Jim Collins, The Stockdale Paradox

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The world is full of suffering; it is also full of overcoming.
— Helen Keller

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” ―Chinese Proverb

 

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday Thought: An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
— Bonnie Friedman