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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rain, Down, Rather

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
John C. Maxwell

Life, Greatest, Grow

Where's your will to be weird?
Jim Morrison

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Bad, After

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu

Injustice, Appreciate, Side

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

Nice, Down, Meet

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius

Heart, Wherever

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman

Sunshine, Keep, Face

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Enemy, Making, Mistake

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Pat Riley

Best, Positive, Attitude

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden

Life, Anger, Hurt

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

Money, Hope, Experience

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Wish, Show, Loved

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates

Teacher, Tough, Wait

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare

Yourself, Hot, Heat

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil Gibran

Heart, Expect, Flowers

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt

Eyes, Keep, Stars

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

Life, Faith, Yourself

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

Life, Time, Spend

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard

Silence, Words, Understand

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Ralph Marston

Today, Improve, Tomorrows

Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Jim Morrison

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill

Life, Work, Best

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd

Failure, Trying, Challenge

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare

Mind, Speech, Fortunes

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs

Work, Simple, End

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx

Black, Path, Animal

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw

Best, Dance, Teach

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Life, Happiness, Decision

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Yourself, Blame

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