The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice. -- Yo-Yo Ma
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” -- George Bernard Shaw
"A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for fewer challenges; wish for more wisdom.” -- Jim Rohn
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -- Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
I find life an exciting business - and most exciting when it is lived for others.” -- Helen Keller
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. -- Abraham Lincoln