The Philosophy of Charles Schultz

If you want to remain always happy,
Always perfect and always fulfilled,
Then always keep inside your heart
A pocketful of sweet dreams.

- Sri Chinmov

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It takes more courage to start than it does to finish!

- John Bingham

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Don't allow anyone to tell you what you can and cannot do.  Be tough, be stubborn, love yourself, and find friends who believe in you.  Recognize your victories.

- Joan Benoit Samuelson

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Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good.  Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

- Ronald Osborn

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Pain.  Love it, hate it, get angry at it.  Breath it with every breath, feel it with every step and use it.  It lets you know you are still alive, more alive than most people will be in their whole lives.

- Strauss

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Pain is temporary.  Quitting lasts forever.

- Lance Armstrong

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.

- Mark Twain

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There are two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.

- Albert Einstein

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

- Unknown

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

- Robert Schuller

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If you can't fly, then run.  If you can't run, then walk.  If you can't walk, then crawl.  But whatever you do, keep moving.

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when.  You can only decide how you're going to live.

- Joan Baez

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You can quit if you want, and no one will care.  But you will know the rest of your life.

- John Collins (Ironman Founder)

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

- Marcus Aurelius

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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.  If you can dream it, you can become it.

- William Arthur Ward

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This is my body.  And I can do whatever I want to it.  I can push it.  Study it.  Tweak it.  Listen to it.  Everybody wants to know what I'm on.  What am I on?  I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day.  What are you on?

- Lance Armstrong

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To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift.

- Steve Prefontaine

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined.

- Henry David Thoreau

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Defeat is not the worst of failures.  Not to have tried is the true failure.

- George E. Woodberry

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It's supposed to be hard!  If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.  The hard... is what makes it great!

- Unknown

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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.  There can be no courage unless you're scared.

- Eddie Rickenbacker

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Some people chase their dreams.  Others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.

- Unknown

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Winners make goals, losers make excuses.

- Unknown

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If you set a goal for yourself and are able to achieve it, you have won your race.  Your goal can be to come in first, to improve your performance, or just finish the race it's up to you.

- Dave Scott, Triathlete

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It's not what God gives you, that counts,...It's how you take care of it,...that does!

- Donna Avvento

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

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The first and best victory is to conquer self.

- Plato

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Life isn't about finding yourself.  Life is about creating yourself!

- George Bernard Shaw

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