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“The lack of love for one’s neighbor can only lead to a society of selfishness and despair.” —Bernadette Chirac.

“Part of what is happening when you spend 7 hours reading a book, is you spend 7 hours with your mind on the topics in the book, grappling with them, drawing connections, having thoughts you would not otherwise have had. And so without that process of grappling, without those hours inside that book, it doesn’t get inside you. It doesn’t impress itself upon you. It doesn’t change you. What reading…

“We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.”— Alanis Morissette.

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”  —John Maynard Keynes.

“Suppose the stars are just our grief reflected back to us.”— Victoria Chang.

“Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” —Robert Fulghum.

“Laughter is anti-inflammatory. Crying is regulating. Hugging is immunoprotective. Singing is vagal toning. Dancing is neurogenic. Joy is a biological necessity.”— Mark Hyman.

“There are many forms of patriotism and telling the truth is one of them.” —Anderson Cooper.

“You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.” —Garth Brooks.

“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.” —Louis L’Amour.

“The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of…

“Nobody who plays Super Mario Brothers or some video game for the first time falls into a pit and is just like: ‘oh my gosh I fell into a pit, I failed, how embarrassing, I never want to play this game again.’ You’re like: ‘okay crap, there’s a pit right there. Okay, next time I’m gonna go a little bit faster, I’m going to jump a little earlier.’ You immediately learn from the failure and you’re…

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” —Lao Tzu.

“What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.” —Jerome K Jerome.

“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” —John F. Kennedy.

“The more people rationalise cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle.” —Stephen Covey.

“We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.”  —Walker Percy.