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My Favorite Quote for this group is:

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
US inventor

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian

Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
Elizabeth David

…the safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Sir Francis Bacon

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar

An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
Oprah Winfrey

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann Fichte

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy