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Michael Jackson

"You are with me always, in my heart."

Phil Jackson

"The way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."

Henry James

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"

Lloyd James

"The people who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."

William James

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

"He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed."

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

"All religion begins with the cry 'Help!'"

"There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self."

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based on either doing or on being."

"If it works, it's true."

"When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is itself a choice."

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

Jan-Fishan

"You may follow one stream. Know that it leads to the ocean, but do not mistake the stream for the ocean."

Karl Jaspers

"The moment is the sole reality."

Thomas Jefferson

"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

"In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

Jesus

"Lift the stone and you will find me; cleave the wood and I am there."

"He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone."

Juan Ramon Jimenez

"A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition."

Jnaneshwar

"Salt gives up its salty taste to become one with the ocean."

Billy Joel

"It's OK to mess up. You should give yourself a break."

Pope John XXIII

"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

Ben Johnson

"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."

John H. Johnson

"I've believed ever since that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death."

Samuel Johnson

"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."

"To a poet nothing can be useless."

Allyson Jones

"If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything."

William Jones

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

Erica Jong

"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back."

"It takes courage to lead a life. Any life."

David Starr Jordon

"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."

Don Jose

"To learn to see, to learn to hear, you must do this--go into the wilderness alone."

Charles Joseph

"As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest."

Chief Joseph

"From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."

"It does not require many words to speak the truth."

Joshu

"When a sincere man teaches a wrong doctrine the doctrine becomes truth: when an insincere man expounds a true doctrine it becomes error."

Joseph Joubert

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."

"Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything they do not make clear."

"Without duty, life is soft and boneless."

Carl Jung

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

"Enlightenment is not imagining figure of light but making the darkness conscious."

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it."

"The greatest sin is to be unconscious."

"Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about."

"If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

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