Diogenes
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
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Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
Hi, Curly, kill anyone today ?
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
What is it you want, Mary ? What do you want ? You want the moon ? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Let thy words be few.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
You become what you think about.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
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Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
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Say hello to my little friend !
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
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Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
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I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
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We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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Indecision is the seedling of fear.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.