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MARRIAGE
Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you – Kahlil Gibran
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you – Kahlil Gibran
Not all who couple are a couple, just being two won’t make it true - Emperor
Give your heart, but not into each other’s keeping, for only the hand of life can contain your heart – Kahlil Gibran
PAIN
Much of your pain is self chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician in you heals your sick self – Kahlil Gibran
RACE
No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Many of our pressing racial problems will be solved when we who are in the minorities will stand on our own feet and refuse to look to anybody else to save us from our situation. - Ben Carson
READING AND KNOWLEDGE
To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge. - Lao-tse (Chinese Taoist philosopher)
Know thyself, know thy opponent, and in a hundred battles, win a hundred victories. - Hsun-tzu, Art of War
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. - Sir Richard Steele
There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. - C. K. Chesterton
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
We do not think enough about thinking. - James Henry Robinson
Education is what survives when what has been learnt is forgotten. - B. F. Skinner
Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin
While we read history, we make history. - G. W. Curtis
To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. - Wernher Von Brown
To know nothing is bad; to learn nothing is worse. - Serrer (African proverb)
RELATIONSHIPS
My worst relationship has been my best relationship, because through it I learnt the most - Guevarrama
RELIGION
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you go into it, take with you your all – Kahlil Gibran
When God takes something from your grasp, he is not punishing you but opening your heart to receive something better - anonymous
Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupation –Gibran
He who wears his morality but as his best garment, were better off naked – Kahlil Gibran
SUCCESS
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feath
The height of great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upwards through the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. - Elaine Maxwell
It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Elinor Smith
You build a successful life one day at a time. - Lou Holtz
SUCCESS
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. - Thomas Wolfe
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill
The road to success is always under construction. You'll encounter potholes, detours and delays. But you must keep your eye on your goal and keep moving forward. - Ed Temple Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. - Samuel Johnson
Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge
Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon Hill
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up! - Babe Ruth
Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. - Alfie Kohn
The same heads and toes you step on up the ladder will be the same ones that will greet you with insidious grins when you fall. - Ben Carson
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. - Napoleon Hill
Quitting is retarding. Trying is rewarding. People never improve until unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. - Tyrone Edwards
If I do not practise one day, I know it. If I do not practise two days, the orchestra knows it. If I do not practise three days, the whole world knows it. - Ignac Paderewski
Average is your enemy. - Rocky Lane
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Think you can, think you can't. Either way, you're right. If opportunity does not knock, build a door. - Milton Berle
SUCCESS
Once you feel the thrill of victory, you want to repeat it as often as possible. To be successful, you can't be afraid to take risks. Risk-taking means using your God-given abilities to overcome life's hurdles and sprint to the finish line. - Benita Fitzgerald
Success is written on ice, and eventually the sun comes out. - Joe Garigola
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value. - Albert Einstein
Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters. - Judi Adler
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. - George Halas
If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure. - Robert Hillyer
It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was the depth of your commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion – these were the things that counted in life. When you gave purely, the honour came in the giving, and that was honour enough. - Captain Scott O'Grady
Plan your work and work your plan. “... the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!” - Amanda in Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Miguel de Cervantes
TEACHING
No man can reveal to you aught but that which lies half asleep in the dawning of your very soul – Kahlil Gibran
A child whose self esteem is intact, does not need many hours of teaching for he will seek the knowledge for himself, so as a teacher, work on the self esteem - Guevarrama
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