1. . "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." Vincent T. Lombardi 2. "Each of us was born with wings... (and) has the ability to go farther than we ever thought possible, to do things beyond our wildest imaginings." - Barbara Stanny 3. "Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine... [Your] values and goals...Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." - Marsha Sinetar 4. "No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it." - Raymond Holliwell 5. "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII 6. "Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt 7. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke 8. "You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing." - Andrew Jackson 9. . "The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt 10.The good we do is never lost, each kindly act takes root, and every bit of love we sow, in time will bear its fruits." - Christine jame 11."You must 'believe it' to 'perceive it' to 'receive it' to 'achieve it'." Matthew Ashimolowo 12.The best friend of a lazy man is 'Mr. Excuse' who lives at 'Talk Avenue' and is married to 'Lady Sleep'." - Yomi Kasali 13. "Smile and the whole world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone" - Ella Wheeler 14."Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so." - Charles De Gaulle 15.If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again." - Thomas H. Palmer

16.It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, if you want to reach the goal. It takes a great deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, if you really want to win." - Navy SEAL Masterchief (1/2) 17.. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" - Anne Frank 18.The most important thing about goals is having one." - Geoffrey F. Abert 19."For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." - Mary Kay Ash 20."Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer 21.. "Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." - Jeremy Kitson

22."A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." - John Maxwell. 23."I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby 24.. "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." - Pamela Vaull Starr 25.. "A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." - Harvey Mackay 26."Climb high; climb far. Your goal is the sky; your aim is the star." Inscription at Williams College 27.. "There's no easy path to glory. There is no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, is no simple parlor game; but its prizes call for fighting, for endurance and for grit; for a rugged disposition that will not quit." - Navy SEAL Masterchief (2/2) 28."Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." - Jean De La Fontaine 29.. "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

30.. "He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide." - Salvador De Madariaga 31.. "Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." - Dr. Dale Turner 32.When the light has sharply faded and you have lost your way, let another's love guide you. It can turn blackest night into day." - Kevin Meyers 33."Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly." - Dr Ann Faraday 34.. "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - Clive Staples Lewis 35."Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "presses on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - John Calvin Coolidge 36.. "I dream my painting and then paint my dream." - Vincent Van Gogh 37."It's the independent American spirit that built this country - hardworking entrepreneurs who believe in the reality of their dreams." Robert E. Hughes 38.. "Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope." - Kalidasa 39.. "It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important." - Francis Ford Coppola 40... "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 41."Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - Art Linkletter 42.. "Happiness walks on busy feet." - Kittie Turmell 43.. "The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire." - Brian Tracy 44.. "Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want." - Hannah Whitall Smith 45."Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your `joie de vivre is crushed under the weight of years." - Zarathushtra 46."You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself." Ethel Barrymore. "I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns

on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy." - Louise Bogan 47.. "Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others... but to get ahead of ourselves." - Thomas L. Monson 48.. "Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really very frightening." Gertrude Stein 49."Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results." - Dennis Waitely 50.. "Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it." - Elaine St. James 51."Tears are like rain. They loosen up our soil so we can grow in different directions." - Virginia Casey 52."Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life." J.E. Buckrose 53.. "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expected to give... Which is everything?" Katherine Hepburn 54."The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." Victor Hugo 55.. "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health has vanished." - Og Mandingo 56.. "What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better." - Doris Lessing 57.He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 58.. "Youve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the . "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain 59.. "Most smiles are started by another smile." - Mark Twain 60.. "I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. It is only a question of loving them enough." - Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco 61.. "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world." - Lao-Tzu 62.. "We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world." - Mother Teresa

63.. "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, and a poet must write if he is ultimately to be at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." - Abraham Maslow 64."Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character." Anthony Robbins 65."Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul is strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller 66."Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, and conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnacious ness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top." - D.A. Benton 67."You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt 68."When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - John F. Kennedy 69."Luck is not chance - It's toil - Fortune's expensive smile - Is earned -" - Emily Dickinson 70."Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity." - Earl Nightingale 71.Top 72."You don't need an explanation for everything. Recognize that there are such things as miracles, events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily." - Harry Browne 73."Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." - Liz Smith 74.. "No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it." - Raymond Holliwell 75."Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." - Sarah Bernhardt 76.. "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke 77."Saying yes and no clearly builds confidence and rids us of the misconception that we are powerless." - Marsha Sinetar 78."You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing." - Andrew Jackson 79.. "Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to

the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be." - W. H. Auden 80.. "Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today." - Og Mandino 81.. "Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous." - Leonardo DaVinci 82.. "I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now as I shall not pass this way again." - William Penn 83.. "Forgive all who offended you, not for them but for yourself." Harriet Uts Nelson 84."Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms." - Daniel Boone 85."If I were forced to condense my ideas on morality into a single sentence: 'Live consciously, take responsibility for your choices and actions, respect the rights of others, and follow your own bliss." Nathaniel Branden 86."It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, if you want to reach the goal. It takes a great deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, if you really want to win." - Navy SEAL Masterchief (1/2) 87."Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility." - Michael Korda 88."You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." - Galileo 89."He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 90."You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough." - Joe E. Lewis 91."The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as friendly as possible rather than hostile." - Bertrand Russell

92."Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." Oscar Wilde 93.There's no easy path to glory. There is no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, is no simple parlor game; but its prizes call for fighting, for endurance and for grit; for a rugged disposition that will not quit." - Navy SEAL Masterchief (2/2) 94."Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so." Robert G. Ingersoll 95."Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes 96."If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton 97.. "Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory." - Ghandi 98."Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them." - John Maxwell 99."What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind." - Benjamin Franklin

100."The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." - Vince Lombardi 101."What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." - Alexander Graham Bell 102."Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington 103."Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers." - Rodan of Alexandria 104."If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be." - JR Miller

105."The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 106."If you want to develop courage, do the thing you fear and keep on doing it until you have a record of successful experiences behind you. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." - Dale Carnegie 107."A smile is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and an antidote for trouble." - Unknown 108."The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility." Giosu, Borsi 109."In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." - Henry Miller 110."The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein 111."A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." - David Brink 112."Take what you want," said God, "and pay for it." - Spanish proverb 113."It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." Confucius 114."I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." - Rita Mae Brown 115.. "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do." - Helen Keller 116."Human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility." Arnold J. Toynbee 117."Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way." - Sophocles 118.. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 119."If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan 120.. "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." Colette

121."Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations." - Ralph Charell 122.. "Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." - Samuel Johnson 123."The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice." - Doug Larson 124."A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright 125."Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman 126.It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 127.. "It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 128.. "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell 129."The joy that isn't shared dies young." - Anne Sexton 130."I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson 131.. "Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts." - Jean Vanier 132."No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." - Harry Emerson Fosdick 133."There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters." - Natalie Clifford Barney 134."You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln 135."Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach 136."The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - William James 137."You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." - Kahlil Gibran 138."Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to

face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers." - Rodan of Alexandria 139.. "The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows." Aristotle Onassis 140.. "It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, 'What are we busy about?'" - Henry David Thoreau 141."The most essential factor is persistence, the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come." - James Whitcomb Riley 142.. "Living itself is a risky business. If we spent half as much time learning how to take risks as we spend avoiding them, we wouldn't have nearly so much to fear in life." - E. Paul Torrance

143.There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Dr. Denis Waitley 144."The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." - Robert Fulgham 145."If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." - Bertrand Russell 146.. "Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away." - Sir Arthur Helps 147."Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidence of others." Leib Lazarow 148."The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 149."A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." - Robert Hughes 150.We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." - Jawaharlal Nehru

151."When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel." 152.Author:Harold Kushner

153.------------------------------------------------------------------------------154."We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." 155.Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

156.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------157."Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. " 158.Author:Confucius

159.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------160."Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness." 161.Author:George Bernard Shaw

162.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------163."Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join the others and push...You live, you help." 164.Author:Ram Dass

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166."We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch of kindness." 167.Author:Unknown

168.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------169."One kind word can warm three winter months." 170.Author:Japanese Proverb

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172.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------173."Kindness is for all times in all situations -- not just when it suits you." Author:Audray Landrum

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------174."There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each person, the assurances of good things to come." Author:Lady Borton ----------175."Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." 176.Author:Albert Schweitzer

177.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------178."Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." 179.Author:Pema Chodron

180.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------181."How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." 182.Author:George Washington Carver

183.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------184."How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." 185.Author:William Shakespeare

186.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------187."If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." 188.Author:Francis Bacon

189.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------190."Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore." 191.Author:Hindu Proverb

192.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------193."Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." 194.Author:Mark Twain

195.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------196."Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." 197.Author:Unknown

198.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------199."It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." 200.Author:Kahlil Gibran

201.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------202."The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." 203.Author:Hadia Bejar

204.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------205."Speak only the truth. Act with only the best intentions. Once you get into the habit, you can live by this code." 206.Author:Unknown

207.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------208."The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones." 209.Author:F. W. Robertson

210.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------211."We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." 212.Author:Marian Wright-Edelman

213.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------214."Do good and care not to whom." 215.Author:Italian Proverb

216.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------217."Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are kind, but because you are." 218.Author:Unknown

219.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------220."It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you." 221.Author:Cort Flint

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223."Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how." 224.Author:Unknown

225.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------226."A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle." 227.Author:Unknown

228.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------229."The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." 230.Author:Mark Twain

231.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------232."He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it." 233.Author:Dante

234.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------235."How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it." 236.Author:George Alliston

237.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------238."Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive."

239.Author:Unknown

240.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------241."Nice, how we never get dizzy from doing good turns." 242.Author:George Bengis

243.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------244."Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." 245.Author:Sally Koch

246.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------247."Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." 248.Author:Benjamin Franklin

249.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------250."No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one." 251.Author:Unknown

252.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------253."If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." 254.Author:Mother Teresa

255.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------256."Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." 257.Author:James Matthew Barrie

258.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------259."There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock." 260.Author:Warren G. Harding

261.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------262."Today, make an investment in someone else's happiness." 263.Author:Unknown

264.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------265."Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways." 266.Author:Zadik

267.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------268."Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the poeple you can. As long as ever you can." 269.Author:John Wesley

270.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------271."If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." 272.Author:The Dalai Lama

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274. "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" - Barry Goldwater 275."Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life." J.E. Buckrose 276.. "You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." - Dale Carnegie 277."Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano make you a pianist." - Michael Levine 278.. "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." - G. C. Lichtenberg 279."Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank 280."A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve." - John Maxwell 281."All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim; have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." - Orison Swett Marden 282."Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health has vanished." - Og Mandingo 283."The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't

like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." - E.M. Gray 284."No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Charles Dudley Warner 285."Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope." - Kalidasa 286."Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller 287.When we see problems as opportunities for growth, we tap a source of knowledge within ourselves which carries us through." - Marsha Sinetar 288."People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale 289."I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough." - Red Skelton 290."If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?" - Mark Twain 291."When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success." - Orison Swett Marden 292.. "The envious are not happy unless they are making other people envious." - Diane 293."When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for it is just the place and time that the tide will turn." Harriet Beecher Stowe 294.As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson 295.. "The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness, will also keep out the joy." - Jim Rohn 296.. "There is no victory at bargain basement prices." - Dwight David Eisenhower 297."The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living

thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression." - Allen J. Boone 298.. "Only the educated are free." - Epictetus 299."Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott 300.. "To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another." Benjamin Jowett

301."Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower." 302.Author:S. H. Simmons

303.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------304."Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy." 305.Author:Randolph Ray

306.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------307."Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it." 308.Author:Christine M. Huppert

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310."One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind." 311.Author:Malaysian Proverb

312.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------313."We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." 314.Author:Winston Churchill

315.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------316."Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." 317.Author:Blaise Pascal

318.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------319."To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life." 320.Author:Samuel Johnson

321.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------322."A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." 323.Author:Washington Irving

324.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------325."As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech."

326.Author:Katherine Francke

327.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------328."Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such." 329.Author:Confucius 330.. "Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life." - Ann Landers 331."I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands." - Darius Ogden Mills 332."O! For a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention." - William Shakespeare 333."Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." - John Wesley 334."To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it." - Mother Teresa 335."Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." - Michael Jordon 336.. "Happiness consists in the attainment of our desires, and in our having only right desires." - Augustine 337.The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy 338.. "Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to." Harry Emerson Fosdick 339."Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason." - Francis Bacon 340.. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stephenson 341.. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work." Thomas Alva Edison

342.. "There are two ways to meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them." - Phyllis Bottome 343.. "Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation." - Coleridge 344.. "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt 345."A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." - Rita Mae Brown 346."Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser 347.. "Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." - Stewart B. Johnson 348."The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give." - Howard Cosell 349."Confidence is the hinge on the door to success." - Mary O'Hare Dumas 350.. "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain 351.The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." Victor Hugo 352.. "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." - Kahlil Gibran 353.. "He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues it possesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 354.. "The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults." - Peter De Vries 355.. "No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." - Harry Emerson Fosdick, D.D. 356."Parents can only give good advice or put one on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." Anne Frank 357."When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her." - Marianne Williamson 358.Education is the movement from darkness to light." - Allan Bloom

359.. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford 360.. "The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others." Madame de Maintenon 361.. "The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours." - Jules Jusserano 362.. "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." Scottish Proverb 363.. "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." - William Connor Magee 364."It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible." - Thomas Robert Gaines 365.Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues." - John Locke 366.. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau 367."We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - John Mason Brown 368."Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 369."If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." - Paula A. Bendry 370."This is the true joy of life--the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances." - G. Bernard Shaw 371.Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues." - John Locke 372."Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau 373.. "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - John Mason Brown 374."Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 375.. "If you do not find peace in yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." - Paula A. Bendry

376.Knowledge is power." - Francis Bacon 377."Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." - Chinese Proverb 378.. "Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle." - G. K. Chesterton 379.. "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln 380.. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt 381."Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." - John Homer Miller 382."Life is not a laughing matter - but can you imagine having to live without laughing?" - Leonard Sukhoru Kou 383.The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay 384."Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost 385.. "Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it." - Ellen Glasgow 386.. "Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." - Harry James 387."Take a second look at what appears to be someone's "good luck." You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking...." - David Joseph Schwartz 388. 389. 390. 391."Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." 392.Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

393.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------394."The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." 395.Author:William Wordsworth

396.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------397."Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of lovingkindness. Lovingkindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining, blazing forth. " 398.Author:Itivuttaka Sutta

399.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------400."Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit." 401.Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

402.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------403."People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." 404.Author:Bonnie Jean Wasmund

405.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------406."A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles." 407.Author:Washington Irving

408.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------409."Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes the ice melt, kindness causes misunderstandings, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." 410.Author:Albert Schweitzer

411.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------412."Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person." 413.Author:C. Neil Strait

414.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------415."Kindness and honesty can only be expected from the strong." 416.Author:Unknown

417.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------418."The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey." 419.Author:Diana, Princess of Wales

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421.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------422."One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession." 423.Author:Sophocles

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425."Compassion, kindness, and concern can be found everywhere in America. And if we have learned nothing else from this [Sept. 11th] tragedy, we have learned that our time on earth is short, so there is simply no time for hate." 426.Author:Sandra Dahl, wife of Jason Dahl, pilot of Flight 93

427.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------428."Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness." 429.Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

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431.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------432."A kind deed a day, like little drops of rain, Makes a mighty ocean and a gracious nation. " 433.Author:Lin Hsiu Nei

434.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------435."If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path." 436.Author:Buddhist saying

437.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------438."You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it

will be too late." 439.Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

440.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------441."The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days." 442.Author:Stephen Jay Gould

443.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------444."As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency." 445.Author:Caroline Kennedy Schlossburg

446.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------447.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------448."It's only me, but I can change a life." 449.Author:Liz, high school student

450.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------451."To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own." 452.Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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454."We need a new ethos of greater responsibility and caring." 455.Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton

456.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------457."A good heart is better than all the heads in the world." 458.Author:Edward Lytton

459.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------460."Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That natures fragile vessel doth sustain In lifes uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them. " 461.Author:Shakespeare

462.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------463."When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. " 464.Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

465.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------466."Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness." 467.Author:Seneca, philosopher (4 BC)

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469."'Wherever there's a human being, there's an opportunity for kindness.' You don't have to plan some big event. You can be strolling the hall in school and say 'hi' to a stranger. Simplicity is the way, you know?" 470.Author:Bow, high school student

471.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------472."The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart." 473.Author:The Dalai Lama

474.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------475."Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging." 476.Author:Deepak Chopra

477.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------478."There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much." 479.Author:Mother Teresa

480.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------481."Man is honored for his wisdom, loved for his kindness." 482.Author:S. Cohen

483.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------484."Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. " 485.Author:Robert Kennedy

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487."Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations." 488.Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

489."We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." Rudyard Kipling 490.. "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." - Cynthia Nelms 491.Gladness of heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolonged his days." - Ecclesiasticus. XXX. 22 492.. "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson 493."When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." Mark Twain 494.. "Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who secure within can say: Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today." - Horace 495.. "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." - H. W. Beecher 496."The happiest man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life." - Goethe

497."Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." - Ruth E. Renkel 498.Would you like me to give you a formula for...success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all...You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure." - Thomas J. Watson, Sr. 499.. "All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve are a direct result of his own thoughts." - James Allen 500."Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best." - Bulwer 501."Choose a job you like and you will never have to work a day of your life." - Confucius 502.. "Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success." - Burt Lawlor 503."Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is." - Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey 504.. "My list of ingredients for success is divided into four basic groups: Inward, Outward, Upward and onward." - Dav" 505.We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;" - Thomas Jefferson (This was within his original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence.) 506.. "Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Viktor Frankl 507.. "Freedom is the right to choose; the right to create for you the alternatives of choice. Without the exercise of choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing." - Archibald MacLeish 508."Human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility." Arnold J. Toynbee 509.. "Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash." -

Harriet Rubin 510.. "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater 511.. "The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself." - Benjamin Franklin 512."Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson 513."Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Sren Kirkegaard 514."Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden 515."No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person." Willa Cather 516."Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours." - Orison Swett Marden 517."The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself." - Publilius Syrus 518."I wish you all the joy that you can wish yourselves." - William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice 519."The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck." - Channing Pollock 520."If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which are difficult, since we think them happier than they are." - Monesquieu 521."Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight." - Scottish Proverb 522."Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli 523."We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." - Albert Einstein 524."Every life has its dark and cheerful hours. Happiness comes from choosing which to remember." - Sol Gordon 525."The mere sense of living is joy enough." - Emily Dickinson 526.The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

527.. "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." - Tom Blandi 528.. "An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality." - John Cage 529.. "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." - Henry David Thoreau 530."Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you." - Frank Tyger 531."Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it." - Rabindranath Tagore 532."The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy 533."Never let yesterday use up today." - Richard H. Nelson 534."Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold." Dr. A. B. Mel drum 535."To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing." Eva Young 536."I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." - Thomas Alva Edison 537."Self-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with selfcontrol." - Unknown 538."I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor are a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation." - Mike Todd 539."The strength and the happiness of a man consist in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way, too." - H. W. Beecher 540.The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein 541.. "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them." - Dion Boucicalt 542.. "You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can." - Jimmy Carter

543.. "The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory." - Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton 544.. "Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over." - Marie Osmond 545."Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin." - Robert Collier 546."Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams 547."There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." - Napoleon Hill 548."The first step to becoming is to will it." - Mother Teresa 549.. "Determination is the wake-up call to the human will." - Anthony (Tony) Robbins 550."Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther." - Zig Ziglar 551."All who have accomplished great things has had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." - Orison Swett Marden 552."Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." - Burton Hills

553.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------554."You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force." 555.Author:Publilius Syrus

556.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------557.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------558."If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?" 559.Author:Nonpareil

560.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------561."There are times that when truth and kindness conflict, one ought to

choose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot." 562.Author:Leroy Jack Syrop

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565.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------566.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------567."A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance...." 568.Author:Jack Kornfield

569.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------570."There's something wonderfully rewarding in being part of an effort that does make a difference." 571.Author:Brian O'Connell

572.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------573."Giving of ourselves is the way we change the world at the end of our fingertips." 574.Author:Richard F. Schubert

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576."Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." 577.Author:George Eliot

578.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------579."It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." 580.Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

581.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------582."I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by...those who...struggle to make one small difference after another." 583.Author:Ellen Goodman

584.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------585."All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." 586.Author:Danny Thomas

587.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------588."Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most." 589.Author:Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist

590.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------591."Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." 592.Author:Archbishop Desmond Tutu

593.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------594."For attractive lips, speak words of kindness." 595.Author:Audrey Hepburn, when asked about her beauty secrets

596.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------597."Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate." 598.Author:Albert Schweitzer

599.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------600."A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string." 601.Author:George D. Prentice

602.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------603."If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself." 604.Author:A. Neilen

605.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------606."Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used." 607.Author:Blaise Pascal

608.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------609.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------610."Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." 611.Author:Samuel Johnson

612.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------613."Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away." 614.Author:Sir Arthur Helps

615.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------616."Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles." 617.Author:John Hall

618.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------619."Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of

caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." 620.Author:Leo Buscaglia

621.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------622."When you do a kindness for others with the purest of intentions, you are letting its essence trickle out of you. If you do it enough it becomes a river. And I'm betting that its source is endless. I don't think you have to worry about giving too much of it away." 623.Author:Dave, Community Organizer, FL

624.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------625."[I have learned] about opening the heart, being more understanding, more loving, kinder." 626.Author:Barbra Streisand

627.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------628."Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." 629.Author:Kahlil Gibran

630.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------631."I've found what's truly sacred in life's small things...Hopefully, the world can be changed through acts of kindness, acts of affection and love--the idea of doing normal, everyday things that actually have an effect down the line...Be kind. Because the opposite works as well. You can send your hatred to the future. And we all know the end result." 632.Author:Sting

633.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------634."Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." 635.Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

636.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------637."Isn't it amazing how often we can touch someone's life, and enrich our own, by a very simple act? Kindness, pass it on...what a wonderful way in which to pattern our lives!" 638.Author:Betty, Community Organizer, WA

639.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------640."The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth." 641.Author:Albert Einstein

642.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------643."When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world." 644.Author:Harold Kushner

645.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------646."After RAK Week, there is more laughter, more unity, less gossip, more openness and honesty."

647.Author:Peter, Teacher, NM

648.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------649."Kindness generates pride, a sense of accomplishment, a "Hey, look what we did!" feeling." 650.Author:Patrick, Teacher, PA

651.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------652."Random Acts of Kindness has brought more meaning into my life, and I am committed to help spread the word." 653.Author:Carol, State Parent Facilitator, HI

654.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------655."In a classroom where kindness is emphasized and unkindness is not tolerated, students feel free to ask questions." 656.Author:Sherry, Teacher, MS

657.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------658."When students are frustrated or get involved in put-down behavior, Random Acts of Kindness works beautifully." 659.Author:Kathy, Teacher, CA

660.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------661."I decided to get involved with kindness because it is the foundation of what a safe community is based on."

662.Author:Rita, Education Administrator, CO

663.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------664."Random Acts of Kindness is the most exciting thing I've ever done. It has changed my life. People are so receptive. It just grows and grows!" 665.Author:Betty, Community Organizer, WA

666.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------667."Kindness builds self-esteem. It provides students with an opportunity to feel pride in who they are and in what they do." 668.Author:Janice, Teacher, NJ

669.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------670."Kind deeds help empower children. They get to see a direct connection between their deeds and the reactions of others." 671.Author:Peter, Teacher, NM

672.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------673."No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." 674.Author:Aesop

675.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------676."Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."

677.Author:Mother Teresa

678.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------679."I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." 680.Author:Helen Keller

681.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------682."I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again." 683.Author:Stephen Grellet, Quaker missionary

684.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------685."Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it." 686.Author:Epictetus (2nd century)

687.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------688."How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world." 689.Author:Anne Frank

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691."He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." 692.Author:St. Basil (330-379), Greek religious leader

693.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------694."Just because an animal is large, it doesnt mean he doesnt want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo." 695.Author:Pooh's Little Instruction Book (inspired by A.A. Milne)

696.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------697."Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." 698.Author:Scott Adams

699.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------700."This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." 701.Author:The Dalai Lama

702.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------703."What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" 704.Author:Jean Jacques Rousseau

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706."Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind." 707.Author:Eric Hoffer

708.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------709."One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; it usually comes back to you. " 710.Author:Anonymous

711.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------712."Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments." 713.Author:The Talmud

714.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------715."We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark." 716.Author:Whoopi Goldberg

717.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------718."Kindness gives birth to kindness." 719.Author:Sophocles (447 BC)

720.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------721."Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens

can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." 722.Author:Margaret Mead

723.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------724."Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us." 725.Author:Henri-Frederic Amiel

726.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------727."A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward." 728.Author:William John Bennett

729.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------730."Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference." 731.Author:Barbara DeAngelis

732.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------733."Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe anothers tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on." 734.Author:Henry Burton

735.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------736."A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world."

737.Author:Mohammed

738.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------739."Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together." 740.Author:Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

741.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------742."We must be the change we wish to see in the world." 743.Author:Gandhi

744.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------745."Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of Gods kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." 746.Author:Mother Teresa

747.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------748."Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." 749.Author:Kahlil Gibran

750.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------751."A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind." 752.Author:Richard Dehmel

753.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------754."Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." 755.Author:Plato

756.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------757."Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love." 758.Author:Lao-Tzu

759.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------760."The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines." 761.Author:Charles Kuralt

762.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------763."When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." 764.Author:The Dalai Lama

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767."Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness--both the ones you have received and the ones you have given--you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter." 768.Author:Dawna Markova

769.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------770."Power is the ability to do good things for others." 771.Author:Brooke Astor

772.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------773."Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy and understanding." 774.Author:John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

775.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------776."Only a life lived for others is worth living." 777.Author:Albert Einstein

778.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------779."When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like wildfire." 780.Author:Whoopi Goldberg

781.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------782."Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"" 783.Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

784.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------785."Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!" 786.Author:Marcus Aurelius

787.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------788."Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past." 789.Author:Tyron Edwards

790.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------791."It is our special duty, that if anyone needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power." 792.Author:Cicero

793.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------794."The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention." 795.Author:Duguet

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797."Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only what you are expecting to give." 798.Author:Katherine Hepburn

799.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------800."Every day I see at least one person who is struggling or having a hard day, and I try to smile or say, 'Hi,' even if I don't know them. Sometimes that simple 'Hi' - that reaching out to them in a friendly way - could change how they're feeling. Someone once wrote, 'Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.' I live by that." 801.Author:Sara, high school student

802.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------803."The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." 804.Author:Charles Lamb (1775-1834), British essayist

805.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------806."To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." 807.Author:Confucius (551-479 BC)

808.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------809."Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never." 810.Author:Sathya Sai Baba

811.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------812."When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel." 813.Author:Harold Kushner

814.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------815."We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light." 816.Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

817.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------818."Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. " 819.Author:Confucius

820.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------821."Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness." 822.Author:George Bernard Shaw

823.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------824."Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join the others and push...You live, you help." 825.Author:Ram Dass

826.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------827."We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch of kindness." 828.Author:Unknown

829.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------830."One kind word can warm three winter months." 831.Author:Japanese Proverb

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833.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------834."Kindness is for all times in all situations -- not just when it suits you." 835.Author:Audray Landrum

836.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------837."There is no tally sheet in the exchange of small kindnesses; but there is shared memory and, from each person, the assurances of good things to come." 838.Author:Lady Borton

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840."Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." 841.Author:Albert Schweitzer

842.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------843."Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." 844.Author:Pema Chodron

845.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------846."How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." 847.Author:George Washington Carver

848.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------849."How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world." 850.Author:William Shakespeare

851.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------852."If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." 853.Author:Francis Bacon

854.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------855."Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore." 856.Author:Hindu Proverb

857.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------858."Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." 859.Author:Mark Twain

860.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------861."Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." 862.Author:Unknown

863.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------864."It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." 865.Author:Kahlil Gibran

866.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------867."The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." 868.Author:Hadia Bejar

869.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------870."Speak only the truth. Act with only the best intentions. Once you get into the habit, you can live by this code." 871.Author:Unknown

872.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------873."The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones." 874.Author:F. W. Robertson

875.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------876."We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." 877.Author:Marian Wright-Edelman

878.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------879."Do good and care not to whom." 880.Author:Italian Proverb

881.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------882."Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are kind, but because you are." 883.Author:Unknown

884.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------885."It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you." 886.Author:Cort Flint

887.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------888."Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how." 889.Author:Unknown

890.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------891."A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle." 892.Author:Unknown

893.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------894."The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." 895.Author:Mark Twain

896.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------897."He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it." 898.Author:Dante

899.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------900."How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it."

901.Author:George Alliston

902.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------903."Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive." 904.Author:Unknown

905.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------906."Nice, how we never get dizzy from doing good turns." 907.Author:George Bengis

908.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------909."Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." 910.Author:Sally Koch

911.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------912."Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." 913.Author:Benjamin Franklin

914.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------915."No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one." 916.Author:Unknown

917.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------918."If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." 919.Author:Mother Teresa

920.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------921."Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." 922.Author:James Matthew Barrie

923.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------924."There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock." 925.Author:Warren G. Harding

926.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------927."Today, make an investment in someone else's happiness." 928.Author:Unknown

929.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------930."Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways." 931.Author:Zadik

932.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------933."Do all the good y