“Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.”
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“Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.”
“What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.”
“God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.”
“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”
“I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.”
“Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.”
“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.”
“On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.”
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”
“Happiness is the natural flower of duty.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
“I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”
“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.”
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”
“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”
“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”
“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?”
“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”