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“We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. ”
― Oswald Chambers

“All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”
― Agnes De Mille

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”
― C.S. Lewis; Inspirational Christian Library

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller

“A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
― Albert Einstein

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.”
― Erma Bombeck

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
― Willa Cather

“Let us run with perserverance the race marked for us.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version