Perry Nikolai

Retired small landscaping business owner, and civil engineer technician, lifelong learner, gardener, loves to be outdoors enjoying nature!

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"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." - Muhammad Ali

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“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there’s actually no such thing as Atheism. Because there’s no such thing as NOT worshipping, everybody worships. The only choice we get is what or whom to worship.” - David Foster Wallace

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" You are just not the age you are, you are all the ages you have ever been. " - Fred Rogers

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“A gentleman would rescue a man trapped in a well, but he would not jump in himself. He is not perfect, but he is not stupid, either.” - Chinese Proverb

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“Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.” - Max Lucado

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“God never made a promise that was too good to be true.” - Dwight L. Moody

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“These bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come‚ cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.” - Abraham Lincoln

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“God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.” - Francis Chan

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - 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. Now." - Joan Baez

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"I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so." - George Washington Carver

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"Greatness does not come about through accumulating great amounts of money, great amounts of publicity or great power in government. When you help someone in any of thousands of ways, you help the world. Kindness is costless but also priceless." - Warren Buffett

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“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.” - C.S. Lewis

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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling

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"He comes in the form of a begger, of the dessolute human child in ragged clothes, asking for help. He confronts you in every person you meet. As long as there are people, Christ will will walk the earth as our neighbor . . ." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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"Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals." - Ralph Bunche

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"Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak–and speak in such a way that people will remember it." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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"Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back." - Bill Nye

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“These bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come… cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.” - Abraham Lincoln

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"Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day." - Johnny Carson