Orison Swett Marden
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
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