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“You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.”
― Brian Tracy

“It is harder to end a war, than begin one.”
― Barack Obama

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that this continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, 'The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― Rick Warren

“Henry David Thoreau wrote, “One is not born into the world to do everything, but to do something.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?”
― Billy Graham

“I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.”
― John C. Maxwell

“That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him”
― Leo Tolstoy

“An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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