We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our law enforcement and labor practices, which currently include people in numerous nations working for inhumane wages in unhealthy conditions.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
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