I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

~James Dean~

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Do small things with
great love.

~Mother Teresa of Calcutta~

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday
in life you will have been
all of these.

~George Washington Carver~

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared with what lies within us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

~Ghandi~

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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

~Albert Einstein~

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Judge each day
not by its harvest, but by the seeds you plant.

~Anonymous~

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How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

~Anne Frank~

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

~Albert Schweitzer~

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Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

~Holocaust Museum~
Washington, DC

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The best way out is always through.

~Robert Frost~

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

~Winston Churchill~

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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~

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

~Dalai Lama~

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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

~Edward Bulwer-Lytton~

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Self-trust is the first secret of success.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

~Matthew Kelly~

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My mother said to me, “
If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general;
if you become a monk,
you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

~Pablo Picasso~

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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

~Jonathan Kozol~

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I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

~Helen Keller~

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 Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. . .
Indeed it’s the only thing
that ever has.

~Margaret Mead~

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Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

~Corita Kent~

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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

~Plato~

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There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

~Walter Reuther~

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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Everybody can be great… because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

~Martin Luther King Jr.~

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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

~Marion Wright Edelman~

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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

~Marion Wright Edelman~

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

~James Barrie~

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If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

~Emily Dickinson~

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

~Edmund Burke~

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He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

~Confucius~

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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

~Albert Einstein~

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

~Winston Churchill~

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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

~Victor Frankl~

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Be not angry that you can not make others as you wish them to be, since you can not make yourself as you wish to be.

~Thomas a Kempis~

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Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

~H. Jackson Browne~

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

~Pablo Picasso~

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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

~Henry David Thoreau~

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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

~John Quincy Adams~

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 Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

~Don Miguel Ruiz~

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The time is always right to do what is right.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.~ 

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 A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experiences.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

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Therapy should alwyas be designed to fit the client and not the client ot fit the therapy.

~Milton Erickson~

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The test of our progress
is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much,
it is whether we provide enough for those who
have too little.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt~

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Know thyself.

~Socrates~

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I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

~Louisa May Alcott~

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Everything can be taken from a man but … the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

~Victor Frankl~

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

~Dorothy Thompson~

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

~Helen Keller~

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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.

~Henry Ford~
also attributed to Mary Kay Ash

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We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

~Jimmy Carter~