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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. 
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. 
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. 
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat 
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. 
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. 
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone 
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs 
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. 
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. 
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength 
Life is a celebration of awakenings, of new beginnings and wonderful surprises that enlighten the soul. 
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor 
In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility. 
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. 
The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them 
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread 
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are 
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. 
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. 
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. 
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. 
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. 
The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced 
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. 
Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes 
Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about. 
Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face. 
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. 
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. 
Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage. 
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. 
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. 
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. 
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. 
The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. 
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. 
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. 
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. 
In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. 
