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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. – John W. Gardner

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. – Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

The happiest people don’t worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it. – Andrew Matthews

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. – Edward Abbey

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. – Charles Dickens

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. – Dag Hammarskjold

When you start treating people like people, they become people. – Paul Vitale

Be kind to your shadow. – Rebecca Lawless

The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future. – Shiloh Morrison

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. – Barbara Johnson

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. – Henry Miller, The Books in My Life