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  • #1
    John Steinbeck
    “A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #2
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
    Charlotte Bronte

  • #3
    Charlotte Brontë
    “The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
    Charlotte Brontë

  • #4
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
    Charlotte Bronte

  • #5
    Walt Whitman
    “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #6
    Walt Whitman
    “These are the days that must happen to you.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #7
    Walt Whitman
    “Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #8
    Walt Whitman
    “Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. ”
    Walt Whitman

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #18
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #19
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #20
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #21
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #22
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

  • #23
    G.K. Chesterton
    “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #24
    G.K. Chesterton
    “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #25
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #26
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #27
    G.K. Chesterton
    “It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #28
    G.K. Chesterton
    “For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #29
    G.K. Chesterton
    “We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”
    G.K. Chesterton
    tags: fear, god

  • #30
    G.K. Chesterton
    “We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
    G.K. Chesterton



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