Hate

From Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl

If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.

For you, I could make an exception.

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Understanding

From Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader

When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.

If I had the courage, I could ask him where I put my car keys. But I don't. I mean, He's GOD!

Simplicity

From Maurice Sendak, author

There must be more to life than having everything.

But I'm willing to risk it.

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Belief

From the Dalai Lama.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things -- he didn't just command them to believe.

Kind of like snipe hunting, only quieter.

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Self Improvement

From Robert M. Pirsig, writer and philosopher

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

We all know it's your fault, anyway.

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Truth

From George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

I searched and found nothing.

Dreams

From Karla Kuban, novelist

Without darkness there are no dreams.

Or a place to hide the bodies.

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Problem Solving

From Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

The problem solving department is on a completely different floor.

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Example

From someone named Catherine.

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Kind of like Brittany Spears.

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Journey

From Ursula Le Guin, author.

 It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

If you don't mind getting it in the end.

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Paying it Forward

From Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer (1906-2001)

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

So, does that mean you're not going to pay back the $50.00 you borrowed from me?

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Knowledge

From Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (1825-1895)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Unless you're a fine arts major. All you need to know then is how to make the fries.

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Compassion

From Leo Buscaglia, author (1924-1998)

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.

But probably won't.

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Courage

From Lucius Annaeus Seneca, writer and philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

But mostly it's because no one has killed you, yet.

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Nature

from Edwin Way Teale, naturalist and author (1899-1980)

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Power saws are cool like that.

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Be Yourself

Anonymous

Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will remember about you.

Which is why you're still single.

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