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To live to 100, have something to live for. Living for something is part of living long.

Never regret growing old; not everyone has that privilege.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

In keeping silent about evil, in burying
it so deep within us that no sign of it
appears on the surface, we are
implanting it, and it will rise up a
thousandfold in the future. When we
neither punish nor reproach evildoers...
we are ripping the foundations of
justice from beneath new generations.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. 
Orison Sweet Marden

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.  Stephen Covey

In the journey of life you will always find stones along the way. It's up to you to determine whether you will use them to build a bridge, and use it to cross over, or to build a wall, to stop you from moving forward.

Don't think that someone is more blessed than you are. It's just that we are blessed in different ways.

Your life is a message to the world. Make sure it's inspiring.

God doesn't give us what we can handle; God helps us handle what we are given.

Everything in life is temporary. So, if things are going good, enjoy them, because they won't last forever. And, if things are going bad, don't worry. They can't last forever either.

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles…. it empties today of its strength.  Corrie Ten Boom

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.

We put more in so you can get more
out.  Kenmore Appliance Ad

The best use of life is to spend it for
something that outlasts it.
William James

The Land of Opportunity is where we live and work when we choose to see with new eyes, live from our hearts, and allow ourselves and others to be what we truly are... Ourselves.  BJ Hateley

Today is the best preparation for what tomorrow may bring.

One day you'll be just a memory for some people. Do your best to be a good one.

Everyone can make a difference; and every day is a chance to do so.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross, and which to burn.  Bertrand Russell

If you see someone without a smile today, give them one of yours.

The best and most beautiful things in
the world cannot be seen or even
touched... they must be felt with the
heart.  Helen Keller

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.  Albert Einstein

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.  Carl Sandburg

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Life is a challenge, meet it.  Mother Theresa

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away!

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.  Bernice Johnson Reagon

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.  Abraham Lincoln

Look at life through the windshield, not
the rear-view mirror.  Byrd Baggett

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.  W. M. Lewis

Make each day your masterpiece.  John Wooden

The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist.  Jack London

Start living now. Stop saving the good
china for that special occasion. Stop
withholding your love until that special
person materializes. Every day you are
alive is a special occasion. Every
minute, every breath, is a gift from
God.  Mary Manin Morrissey

Life has no limitations, except the ones
you make.  Les Brown

Life is either daring adventure or
nothing.  Helen Keller

It’s easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows along like a song, but the man worthwhile is the man who can smile, when everything else goes wrong.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were
better.  Jim Rohn

The things that hurt us teach us.

Aspire to a lower level of harm.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in
marble.  Benjamin Franklin

We are here to add what we can to, not
what we can get from, life.
Sir William Osler

Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.  Martin Luther King Jr.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.  Betty Smith

 In everything that you do, consider the end.  Solon

Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.  John Ruskin

We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.  Richard Steele

How we spend our days, of course, is
how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard

One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly, and not saying no soon enough.  Josh Billings

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.  Albert Einstein