“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
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“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
Epicurus
“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
Victor Hugo
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
William Blake
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde
“I love catching people in the act. That's why I always whip open doors.”
Dwight Schrute
“Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.”
Jonathon Ive
“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”
Tony Robbins
“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.”
George Eliot
“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I would no longer see barricades. Stumbling blocks would now be seen as stepping stones to something better.”
Christine Comaford
“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?”
George Bernard Shaw
“Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.”
Arnold H. Glasow
“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
André Gide
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If you’ve never met the devil on the road of life, it's because you’re both heading in the same direction.”
“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”
Will Rogers
“The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.”
Augusten Burroughs
“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
Albert Camus
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
John F. Kennedy
“I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.”
Steven Wright