“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

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Let our New Year's resolution be this: 
we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. 
Goran Persson

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one. John Lennon

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem

An angel has no memory.

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The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It's like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right. Stevie Ray Vaughan

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.

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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.      

Marcus Aurelius

“Don't be in a hurry. Everything arise in the due time.”

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“To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.” 

― P.B. Kerr, The Five Fakirs of Faizabad

A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.

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Be thankful for the struggles you go through. They make you stronger, wiser and humble. Don’t let them break you. Let them make you.

Time will pass and seasons will come and go. ...

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Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.  Henry Cloud

The universal pursuit of the individual human being is to escape loneliness.

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One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.   Thomas McGuane

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

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“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.” 

― Roy T. Bennett

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

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John Denver: “Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.”

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beautiful scenery can help everything.

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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. 

Franz Kafka

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. 

Joseph Campbell

“The human body is the best work of art.”

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“As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.” 
― lauren klarfeld

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

Friendship is like a long phone call about nothing.

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Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.       Kevin Mitnick

We move in order to see.

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“Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.” 
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

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“ Years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.”

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs

The best mirror is an old friend.

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Beautiful memories are like old friends. They may not always be on your mind, but they are forever in your heart.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

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Sweet Treats

Chocolate kisses and ice cream wishes. 

Lemon drops and soda pops. 

Jelly beans and sugar-filled dreams. 

Lollipops and candy shops.

Sugar is yummy in every way, 

and adds to my sweetness every day!

      ~~ Sarah Hammer

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

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“Rain brings rain of umbrellas!”

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Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.          Marianne Williamson 

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

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I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.         John Thune

  

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

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“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.” 

― John Stuart Mill

True love stories never have endings.

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The mysterious is always attractive.

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Most women
I know are priestesses 
and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order. 
Marianne Willi

Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.

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Your body is not a temple

It’s an amusement park.

Enjoy the ride.

Anthony Bourdain

"Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss...you'll land among the stars."

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"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse."        Ed Koch 

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.      Confucius

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize.
Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.  - Wayne Dyer

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

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I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.   Max Beckmann

Every person is a new window to a different world.

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.     

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom does not come without a price.

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Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, 
we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.    

Nelson Mandela

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. 

L. Wolfe Gilbert

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge 

but imagination.        Albert Einstein

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

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“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” 

Plato

“God is not interested in your denomination but, your heart.”

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“If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.” 

― David Housholder

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

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The lovely flowers embarrass me,

They make me regret I am not a bee –

~Emily Dickinson

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist.   Be curious.      Stephen Hawking

“Open wide the window. Sun and sounds of the city energize my day.”

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“Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!” 

― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A secret spoken finds wings.”

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A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it. – Fausto Cercignani

An Investment in Knowledge pays the best Interest.

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Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree.

                          It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

  Shakuntala Devi

“Peace begins with a smile..”

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A girls most beautiful outfit ever is charisma, the prettiest accessory is smile, and the best pair of heels is confidence.

“When Words fail Music Speaks. ”

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“Life is for the living.

Death is for the dead.

Let life be like music. 

And death a note unsaid.” 

― Langston Hughes

"Make memories because no one can take them away”

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“It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.” 

― Richard Llewellyn

Rock and Roll is here to Stay!

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Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.       Bobbie Ann Mason

Friendship should never be neglected or else it will end.

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False friends are like your shadow; 

they follow you in the sun, 

but leave your side when it gets dark.

“Look on every ending as a beginning somewhere Else.”

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“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings.

 Remember that next time you feel alone.” 

― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass