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Personal Growth

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

Edward Bulwer Lytton

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Philip Gilbert Hamilton

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

If we all did the things we are capable of,

we would astound ourselves.

Thomas Edison

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld

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GaidaR  says:
5 months ago

It's very true that energy and persistence conquer all things. Too often we give up when success can be just round the corner.

When you get to the end of your rope... tie a knot and hang on.Franklin D Roosevelt

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Happiness

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.Benjamin Franklin

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.John Stuart Mills

Motivational

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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

We are still masters of our fate.

We are still captains of our souls.Winston Churchill

Life

The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.Seneca

(7 B.C. - 65 A.A.)

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.La Bruyere

One way to get the most out of life is

to look upon it as an adventure.William FeatherTo live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.Samuel Butler

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