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“Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from what you can do”
- John Wooden

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
- Christopher Columbus

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”
- Confucius

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed”
- Henrik Ibsen

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities”
- J.K. Rowling

“If you are going through hell, keep going”
- Winston Churchill

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present”
- B. Olatunji

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all”
- Oscar Wilde

“You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.”
- Joan Baez

“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 that has been opened for us”
- Helen Keller

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”
- Albert Einstein

“If you want to be happy, be”
- Leo Tolstoy

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest”
- Mark Twain

“We must be the change we want to see”
- Gandhi

“The friend in my adversity I shall always treasure most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity”
- Ulysses S. Grant

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting”
- Elizabeth Bibesco

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of conflict and controversy”
- Martin Luther King Jr.

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snow flake”
- M.B. Ray

“I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again”
- Etienne de Grellet

“This above all: To your own self, be true”
- William Shakespeare

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting”
- E.E. Cummings

“In three words I can sum up what I’ve learned about life: It goes on”
- Robert Frost

“Imagine”
- John Lennon

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