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The American dream belongs to all of us. Kamala Harris
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson
Whatever good things we build end up building us. Jim Rohn
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot
Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones. Thich Nhat Hanh
Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed. Bob Riley
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. Jack Layton
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? William Shakespeare
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Tony Robbins
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Hal Borland
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. Rumi
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike
We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations. L. Lionel Kendrick
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Joseph B. Wirthlin
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. Michael Jackson
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Charles Lamb
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. Amelia Barr
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let’s not be afraid to receive each day’s surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity. Henri Nouwen
If we don’t end war, war will end us. H. G. Wells
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. Vladimir Lenin
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Saint Augustine
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. Billy Graham
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. Malala Yousafzai
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend. Robert Burns
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. Maya Angelou
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. Jim Morrison
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. Peter Marshall
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Epicurus
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. Isaac Asimov
Friends are the siblings God never gave us. Mencius
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. Melody Beattie
The things that we love tell us what we are. Thomas Aquinas
Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law. Barack Obama
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. Thomas Merton
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Carl Sagan
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. William Wordsworth
There’s a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly. Travis Scott
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. Joseph Stalin
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. Anne Frank
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Albert Schweitzer
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Buddha
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. James M. Barrie
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. Thomas Paine
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. Thurgood Marshall
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. John Dryden
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still. Thomas Moore
We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing. Charles Bukowski
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. Barbara Bush
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. John F. Kennedy
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. E. M. Forster
I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity. Angelina Jolie
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. Luciano De Crescenzo
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. Alexis Carrel
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. Swami Vivekananda
No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them. Alana Stewart
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown
We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve. Bill Gates
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. Stephen King
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. Marie Curie
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. Ben Okri
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. Zig Ziglar
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau
Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together. Linda Thompson
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. Charles Stanley
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. John Steinbeck
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller