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The country clubs, the cars the boats, your assets may be ample,
But the best inheritance you can leave your kids
Is to be a good example.
Barry Spilchuk

When you come to the edge of all the light you know,
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on,
or you will be taught how to fly.
Barbara J. Winter

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it,
you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel,
and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten

We forgive to the extent that we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills

. . .if we wait for the moment when everything,
absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev

The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
H. W. Arnold

Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it.
Philip Larkin

Kindness is wisdom.
Phillip J. Bailey

If you were going to die soon
and had only one phone call you could make,
who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine

You know you've achieved perfection in design,
not when you have nothing more to add,
but when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery

Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift

Our life is frittered away by detail...
Simplify, SIMPLIFY.
Thoreau

Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
James Lowell

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living
at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve
to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer

To generalize is to be an idiot.
William Blake

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Appreciation is a wonderful thing;
it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
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