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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller
True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
Homer
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.
Frank Sinatra
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation is principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
Jimmy Carter
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
Publilius Syrus
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."
Scott Adams
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.
Charles Lamb
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
Barbra Streisand
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh
George Bernard Shaw
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
We missed out on the joy we are feeling now in France 98, but we are living it now and it is such a pleasure for every Brazilian.
Ronaldo
There did Zakariya pray to his Lord; he said: My Lord! grant me from Thee good offspring; surely Thou art the Hearer of prayer. (The Family of Imran 3.38)
Koran
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
Maria Montessori
