"Grudges are for those who insist that they are owned something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."
~Criss Jami
"Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything."
~Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
~Friedrich Nietzsche
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
~Dale Carnegie
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
~James Baldwin
"It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness."
~Roy T. Bennett
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
~Nelson Mandela
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
~Arthur Conan Doyle
"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep."
~Dale Carnegie
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."
~J. K. Rowling
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."
~Dale Carnegie
"More often than not, it's better to give up thinking, worrying and obsessing, in favor of faith that things will work out fine."
~Sue Fitzmaurice
"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
~Abigail Van Buren
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened up."
~Helen Keller
"Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life.
Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they're blessings or lessons."
~Roy T. Bennett
"Life is like a camera.
Just focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don't work out, just take another shot."
~Richard Branson
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shorted.
Happiness never decreases by being shared."
~Buddha
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist.
Children already know that dragon exists.
Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."
~G. K. Chesterton
"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."
~Leo F. Buscaglia
"It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That's what makes you really feel alive. You have to say 'no' to other things you're used to, and do it with all your heart."
~Roy T. Bennett
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