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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

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Overcome obstacles - grow and bloom anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous

Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine

Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He is able who thinks he is able.
- The Buddha

People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein

Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Do what you love, love what you do,
and deliver more than you promise.
- Harvey McKay

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous

If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

I Dream with Powerful Vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We have a choice every day regarding
the attitude we will embrace for that day.
- Charles Swindoll

We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

They can because they think they can.
- Virgil

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford

You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown

Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi

An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill

The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow

You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I Dream with Powerful Intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie