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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Bodhidharma

Mind, Everything, Understand

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault

May, Enjoy, Big

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

Rather, Nation, Action

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy

Success, Fear, Mind

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Frederick Douglass

Wanted, Until, Found

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot

Great, Soul, Elevate

I've been things and seen places.
Mae West

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato

Love, Great, Done

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
Will Rogers

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing, Everything, Impossible

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
Will Rogers

Life, Funny, Congress

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Good, Bad, Happen

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
Angelina Jolie

Happy, Live, Through

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

Great, Done, Together

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
Barack Obama

Best, Future, Done

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
Saadi

Patience, Before, Become

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Coco Chanel

Women, Men, Why

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney

Live, Children, Feelings

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
Thomas a Kempis

Love, Strength, Nothing

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

Good, Beautiful, Give

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.
Joel Osteen

Wanted, Against, Times

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell

Attitude, Big, Achieve

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot

Heart, Lord, Excellent

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato

Soul, Everyone, Clear

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Edward de Bono

Powerful, Simple, Important

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
Will Rogers

Good, Bad, Done

I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato

Learning, Old, Grow

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

Today, Tomorrow, Happen

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
Barack Obama

Big, Biggest, Capable

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James

Life, Important, Human

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