There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he can and should be,
and he will become as he can and should be.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unlike grown-ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you'll help them to become
what they are capable of becoming.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou 
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
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 be as one.
- John Lennon
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
As we let our light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence actually liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
By not caring too much about what people think,
I'm able to think for myself
and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.
And I succeed.
- Albert Ellis
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
The manifest universe is the body of God ...
all people are incarnations of the One Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals,
because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Most people are more skilled at begging God than at thanking God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
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