So true.
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"People tend to think of happiness as a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly."- Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American author
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well."- Diane Ackerman (1948) American poet
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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."- R.G. Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) American lawyer
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With a name like that how could he not be brilliant?
"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) English art critic
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"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." --Galileo
Clearly Galileo was never a High School football coach!
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."- Bishop W.C. Magee (1821 - 1891) Irish clergyman
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"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action."- Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975)
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"Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment."- Tom Morris (1821 - 1908) Scottish golfer