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“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. 

- Thanks to Joan Didion and to www.quotegarden.com

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”

                                               - Thanks to Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thanks to wikipedia for the image and to thinkexist.com for the online version of the quote.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

 - Thanks to A. Powell Davies and to www.wisdomquotes.com

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.- Thanks to John W.Gardner

Thanks to www.wisdomquotes.com for the online version of the quote and to http://en.wikipedia.org for the photo of John W.Gardner.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility. - Albert Einstein

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.-Thanks to Aristotle

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      “What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” - Thanks to Alfred Adler

Thanks to wikipedia for the image and to thinkexist.com for the online version of the quote

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. - Leonardo Da Vinci.

Thanks to wikipedia for the image and to www.thinkexist.com for the online version of the quote.

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.” - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

“Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.”

               - Thanks to Ayn Rand.

Thanks to wikipedia for Rand's photo and to thinkexist.com for the online version of the quote.

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.  - Thanks to Aristotle. 

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

Thanks to Calvin Coolidge. Thanks to wikipedia for the image and to thinkexist.com for the online version of the quote.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. - Thanks to Thomas Carlyle

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