GENIUS THOUGHTS

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.)

--- Sir Isaac Newton

Many people dream of success. I believe that success can be achieved only through repeated failure and self-analysis. Success is only one percent of your work, and the rest – bold overcoming of obstacles. If you are not afraid of them, success will come to you itself.
---Soichiro Honda

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams....Eleanor Roosevelt

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. --- VOLTAIRE

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. --- Voltaire

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail. ---Woodrow Wilson

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. ---Winston Churchill

Kindness in speaking creates confidence,

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness,

Kindness in giving creates love.

--- Lao Tse

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously.  That's how character is built. --- Eleanor Roosevelt 

Education is the best provision for old age. --- Aristotle

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. --- Albert Einstein

Power is of two kinds; one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

--- MK Gandhi

Cognitive dissonance is an important element. If you don't react to what is wrong, you adapt and change since you have to live with yourself. 
---Olav Ofstad

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed as industrious and enterprising citizen.  

---Henry David Thoreau

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your soul. Sing and dance together but let each one be alone. Stand together yet not too near together; for the pillars of a temple stand apart and the oak tree and cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
--- Khalil Gibran in "The Prophet" 

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