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Aldous Huxley
859. “Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?” – A Course in Miracles
860. “Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.” – Sir Thomas Browne
861. “One finds great comfort in good dinners.” – Zora Neale Hurston
862. “Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.” – William C. Durant
863. “Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.” – Lawrence Bixby
864. “Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” – Virginia Satir
865. “Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.” – Jean de la Bruyere
866. “There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.” – Henry Drummond
867. “No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
868. “Don't regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.” – Unknown
869. “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.” – Orison Swett Marden
870. “The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
871. “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.” – Isak Dinesen
872. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” –Mother Teresa
873. “Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is.… It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.” – Sir Laurence Olivier
874. “Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.” – Henry David Thoreau
875. “Don't let other people tell you what you want.” – Pat Riley
876. “Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.” – Basil Maturin
877. “A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.” – Albert Schweitzer
878. “Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.” – Corita Kent
879. “Never let life's hardships disturb you…no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.” – Nichiren Daishonin
880. “Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.” – Walter Savage Landor
881. “To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakable perfect miracle.” –Walt Whitman
882. “Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.” – C.S. Lewis
883. “Let me listen to me and not to them.” – Gertrude Stein
884. “Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
885. “When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity…I can be sure that I am right.” – Federico Fellini
886. “Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.” – Mignon McLaughlin
887. “Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.” – Bern Williams
888. “It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.” – Katherine Butler Hathaway
889. “The family fireside is the best of schools.” – Arnold Glasgow
890. “When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.” – Sir Alexander Paterson
891. “When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.” – William Joseph Slim
892. “Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.” – Erich Fromm
893. “The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink, and somebody to love you.” – Brendan Behan
894. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
895. “Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.” – Anonymous
896. “You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.” – From Henri Frederic Amiel
897. “The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.” – Menicus
898. “If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.” – Jane Austen
899. “Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise – then you will discover the fullness of your life.” – Brother David Steindl-Rast
900. “The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.” – Norman Cousins
901. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw
902. “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates
903. “Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
904. “And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
905. “It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.” – Queen Christina
906. “People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.” – Daily Bread
907. “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” – Charlotte Bronte
908. “Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.” – Plutarch
909. “When the solution is simple, God is answering.” – Albert Einstein
910. “We make our fortunes and call them fate.” – Benjamin Disreali
911. “Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.” –Anonymous
912. “Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.” – Louisa May Alcott
913. “Choices are the hinges of destiny.” – Pythagoras
914. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes
915. “The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” – G.K. Chesterton
916. “Once the ‘what’ is decided, the ‘how’ always follows. We must not make the ‘how’ an excuse for not facing and accepting the ‘what.’” – Pearl S. Buck
917. “He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.” – Anwar al-Sadat
918. “When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is” -German Proverb
919. “Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
920. “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
921. “Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” – Dr. Joyce Brothers
922. “For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.” – Anonymous
923. “I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character.” – Theodore Roosevelt
924. “Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.” – Anonymous
925. “It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.” – Edward Henry Harriman
926. “The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.” –Anonymous
927. “Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.” – Billy Wilder
928. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.” – A. J. Cronin
929. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
930. “Instinct is the nose of the mind.” – Delphine Gay de Girardin
931. “We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.” – Calvin Coolidge
932. “One of God's arrangements is that after winter there should come beautiful spring days. It happens every year and it happens in every life.” – Father Joseph
933. “A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” – Edgar Watson Howe
934. “There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.”
935. “Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.” – Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens
936. “Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.” –Voltaire
937. “Do not fear mistakes, there are none.” – Miles Davis
938. “Adversity introduces a man to himself.” – Anonymous
939. “Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.” – Madeleine L'Engle
940. “Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.” – Socrates
941. “The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, the second is disastrous.” – Margot Fonteyn
942. “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” – Unknown
943. “Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.” – Lady Bird Johnson
944. “It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.” – Unknown
945. “The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.” – Julia Alvarez
946. “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland
947. “True friends are like jewels, precious and rare. False ones are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.” – A Favorite School Teacher
948. “Action is the antidote to despair.” – Joan Baez
949. “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.” – Henry James
950. “Rather than persistence in service, service consists of courtesy. Observance of courtesy in the course of service is better than service itself.” – From The Wisdom of Sufism, compiled by Leonard Lewisohn.
951. “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be.” – Groucho Marx
952. “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
953. “To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.” – George Orwell
954. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
955. “Be happy. It's one way of being wise.” – Colette
956. “Fortune and love befriend the bold.” – Ovid
957. “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.” – Bernard Baruch
958. “People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.” – Unknown
959. “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” – Bertrand Russell
960. “The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays