PLAY like you're five again;

SING like you're all alone;

DANCE like no one's watching;

WORK like you don't need the money; and

LOVE like you've never been hurt.

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May there always be work for your hands to do;
May your purse always hold a coin or two;
May the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May the hand of a friend always be near you;
May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away.

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The older I get . . . the better I was.

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"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

- Galileo Galilei

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"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

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"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

- Will Durant

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"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

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"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century."

- Perelman

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"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

- Tom Clancy

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"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."

- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair

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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadsworth

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), "Man in the Arena" Speech given April 23, 1910

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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming . . . 'Wow!  What a ride!'"

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Don't Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high.

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest, if you must - but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out;

Don't give up, though the pace seems slow -

You might succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man,

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor's cup.

And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt -

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems afar;

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -

It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.

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"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.

Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."

Cherokee Proverb

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"What other people think of you is none of your business."

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"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

George Bernard Shaw

(1856-1950) Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925

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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony"

Gandhi

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"It's not the number of years you live in your life that matters but the amount of life you live in those years."

Unknown

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Wise men talk because they have something to say;  fools, because they have to say something. 

Plato

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Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round.  Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

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I believe- that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others.
Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I believe- that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world
doesn't stop for your grief.

I believe- that our background and circumstances may have influenced
who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

I believe- that just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they
don't love each other and just because they don't argue, it doesn't
mean they do.

I believe- that you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It
could change your life forever.

I believe- that two people can look at the exact same thing and see
something totally different.

I believe- that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by
people who don't even know you.

I believe- that even when you think you have no more to give, when a
friend cries out to you, you will find the strength to help.

I believe- that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human
being.

I believe- that the people you care about most in life are taken from
you too soon.

Author unknown

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We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted.

Each of us contains within us this inheritance of soul.

We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations,

     sacred memories and future promise.

Edward Sellner

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