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Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
Bill Copeland

Try, Turtle, Ease

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

Faith, Happy, Successful

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

Life, Design, Someone

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

Future, Past, Blame

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

Happiness, Made, Ready

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.
Dalai Lama

Religion, Kindness, Heart

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Peace, Happiness, Family

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs

Life, Time, Courage

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Men, Government

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

Mind, Important, Succeed

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Thinking, Lazy, Brain

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

Greatest, Sometimes, Poverty

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Death, Spiritual

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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Living, Forces

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss

Yourself, Direction, Shoes

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddha

True, Minds, Sky

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

Eyes, Few, Hearts

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

True, Self, Night

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

Time, Good, Men

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa

Peace, Mother, Greatest

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Age, Mind, Thinking

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

Goes, Pay, Generation

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Long, Die, Until

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

Mind, Enemy, Evil

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein

Important, Reason, Stop

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Jessica Lange

Mother, Children, Become

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience, Rich, Poor

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Happiness, Jealousy

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

Work, Him, Down

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa

Love, Someone, Rich

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