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"You're either part of the solution or part of the problem." L. Eldridge Cleaver

"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. … I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with the pain." James Baldwin

"Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can." Arthur Ashe

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. John Steinbeck

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. Charles Nobel

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

Joyce A. Myers

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

John McCain

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."

Og Mandino

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." Vince Lombard

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. Apache Proverb

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. Kahlil Gibran

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."

Arthur Rubinstein

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. Michael Jordan

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison

"The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself." Wang Yang-Ming

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble." Rudyard Kipling

"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." Harriet Woods

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." Benjamin Franklin

" I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." Rosa Parks

I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Churchill

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge

Kahlil Gibran

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. Henry David Thoreau

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills

"If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the souls of others." Richard Eberhart

"Beauty is not caused. It is." Emily Dickinson

There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."

Robert Flaherty, documentary filmmaker

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

Luke 2: 11-12
Bible

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. Erma Bombeck

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small. Eva K. Logue

The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. O. Henry

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. WT Purkiser

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. Alice Walker

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of 4 simple words: I do not know. Andre Maurois

The difference between a goal and a dream is the written word. Gene Donohue

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Margaret Bonanno

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. E. L. Konigsburg

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Mark Twain

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."

Maya Angelou

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. Douglas Everett

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was." Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The beginning is the half of every action. Greek Proverb

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." Thich Nhat Hanh, Author and Buddhist Monk

"Believe noting merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings-that doctrine believe and cling to and take it as your guide." Buddhist saying

"It never occurs to me that there are things that I can't do." Whoopi Goldberg

Aristotle

"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act, but a habit."

That which we must learn to do, we learn by doing.

"Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite." Robert Half

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." Lena Horne

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

Thomas H. Hurley

"Just do what you do best."

Red Auerbach

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"You play the way you practice."

Pop Warner, Football Coach

"Obstacles traversed, are merely podiums for achievement."

Peter Monet

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Harry F. Banks

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing."

Abraham Lincoln

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

Naguib Mahfouz,

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't - you're right."

Henry Ford

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

Alfred Nobel

"There are people who want to be everywhere at once... and they get nowhere"

Carl Sandburg

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

Jack London

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

"If you want to see something done, just tell some human beings it can't be done. Make it known that it's impossible to fly to the moon, or run 100 meters in 9.9 seconds, or solve Fermat's Last Theorem. Remind the world that no one has ever hit 62 home runs in a season or stuffed 18 people into a Volkswagen. Dangle the undoable in front of the world. Then, consider it done."

Merrill Lynch

"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education."

Thomas Carlyle

"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."

Dr. Seuss

"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. "

Erica Jong, Author

"You create your opportunities by asking for them."

Patty Hansen, Author

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The past is behind, learn from it;
The future is ahead, prepare for it;
The present is here, live in it."

Thomas Monson

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Author

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."

Tom Clancy

"I am always doing that which I can not do in order that I may learn how to do it."

Pablo Picasso

Unknown

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.

"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted."

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu,

Anonymous

A Christmas List

Fear less, hope more;
Eat less, chew more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things will be yours.

Old age is like a bank account ... you withdraw from what you've put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".

"He who is ashamed of asking is ashamed of learning."

Danish Proverb

"Only a mediocre writer is always at his best."

Somerset Maugham

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

Malcolm Forbes

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"After you’ve done a thing the same way over two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it way and start all over."

Alfred Perlman

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

New ideas pass through three periods:
             *It can't be done.
             *It probably can be done, but it's not   worth doing.
             *I knew it was a good idea all along !

Arthur C. Clarke

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

Ralph Abernathy

"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."

Robert Cormier

"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."

Haile Selassie

John Wesley

Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
At all the times you can
To all the people you can
As long as ever you can.

"Think and let think."

"I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow."

Barbara Jordan

"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare."

Harriet Martineau