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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." - Unknown

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Unknown

"The spirit removed, and man is garbage." - Unknown

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there one day." - Winnie the Pooh

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - Christopher Robin

"I am who I am. Who matters does not mind. Who minds does not matter." - Unknown

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong... because sometime in your life you will have been all of these." - Unknown

"As we speak, so time flees away. Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow." - Horace

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... and my all time favorite:

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours." - Ayn Rand