I hope you are well and that these quotes will help you in your search for more prosperity and happiness. It is my pleasure each week to bring some of that to you and those you keep close.

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1. "Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also matters immensely for our personal destiny."
--Daniel Goleman

2. "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
--Mary Pickford

3. "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
--Francis Bacon

4. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

5. "My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces."
--Wilma Rudolph, Winner of 3 Gold Medals in running events 1960 Summer Olympics

6. "We will either find a way or make one."
--Hannibal

7. "It's not whether you get knocked down: it's whether you get up."
--Vince Lombardi