If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.

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