Nelson Mandela
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing, a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
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This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
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I may not be perfect, but some parts of me are excellent.
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
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Hope springs eternal.
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There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
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I am not a toy. I am a spork !
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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Sanctuary !
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Well, nobody's perfect.
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Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.
The show must go on.
But I would be proud.
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When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
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Love conquers all.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
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Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
He who hesitates is lost !
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.