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"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner
"Try not. Do or do not." Yoda
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Thomas Paine
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles." Charles Chaplin
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes there are no words, no clever quotes to neatly sum up what's happened that day. Sometimes you do everything right, everything exactly right, and still you feel like you failed. Did it need to end that way?” – Hotch
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." William Shakespeare
“People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.” – Lewis Cass
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” –Ann Landers
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
“A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled” – Spanish Proverb
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah
“I offer images- I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached- like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors, we can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free. Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything- not just wealth. All the bullshit that he's been taught- all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.” – Jim Morrison
"The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says “Go!”- a leader says “Let’s go!”." – E.M. Kelly
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” – George MacDonald
“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Self-trust is the first secret to success.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.” – Billy Wilder
“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.” --Marcus Tullius Cicero
“People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances” – Ralph Waldo Emmerson