...your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of stone.


R.J. Palacio

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Never regret your past, just use your bad memories as a stepping stone to get to your future.
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If in life you feel like a stone tossed about in stormy sea, remember that the rough and jagged edge...
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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Your achievements and accomplishments are more important than your experience and memories.
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It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.
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MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:

WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING
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My mom smiled at me. Her smile kind of hugged me.
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AMOS CONTI'S PRECEPT
Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool.
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the universe takes care of all its birds.
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Learning who you are is what you're here to do.
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We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness...
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It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, w...
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Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
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One mistake does not define you.
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Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed....
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its better to know some question than all answers -James Thurber
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by deat...
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The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.
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Your memories don't make you who you are.
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Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so con...
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instead of wondering why you are not like the others, ask your self why you have to be like others?
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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
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Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
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Be a master of yourself.
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So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
ANONYMOUS
So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
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So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.
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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone
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And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
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Keep two faced people out of your life instead of wasting your time to deal with their madness.
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You shall not pile, with servile toil,/ Your monuments upon my breast,/ Nor yet within the common so...
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