Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - June 26, 2015
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), December 13, 1963  
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101, 1991  
The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.
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Lisa Williams, The Lessons of Nixon, 05-19-06  
It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008  

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