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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Abdul Kalam

Work, Best, Alone

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin

Fine, Eye, Blind

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

Society, Try, Leader

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis

War, Different, Rest

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison

Patience, Real, Blessings

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky Friedman

Marriage, Gay, Support

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
Ronald Reagan

Forget, America, Abuse

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Good, Year

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe

Science, Madness, Taught

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama

Life, Hope, History

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Live, Others

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.
Angie Stone

Karma, End, Woman

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
Tupac Shakur

God, Judge, Struggle

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

Marriage, Wife, Truths

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

God, Wisdom, Pain

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Andy Rooney

End, Remember, Lives

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
John F. Kennedy

Work, Real, Him

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Beautiful, Waiting, Brave

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn

Work, Good, End

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Care, Short

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Road, Turn

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence, Genius, Inspires

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia

Love, Time, Death

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn

Sadness, Joy, Around

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

May, Silent, Hear

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, Accept, Idea

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Life, Power, Through

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Why, Reason

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

Love, Truth, Friends

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