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“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
― George Washington

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

“But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.”
― George Washington

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”
― George Washington

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”
― George Washington

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
― George Washington

“One man with courage makes a majority.”
― Andrew Jackson

“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.”
― Andrew Jackson

“it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt”
― Martin Van Buren

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“What is it, Father?” Picket asked as Mother tenderly took Jacks from him. “It’s only that, when you’re older, you hand out wisdom to your children like you know everything, but it is sometimes hard to follow your own advice.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank.” He paused, looked kindly at her. “Yes, Father. I understand.” “I regret many things I’ve done,” he said, “but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, ‘You are my master.”
― S.D. Smith, The Green Ember

“That's the kicker about being diagnosed with something no one has ever heard of before. Deep down, in the places no one really talks about, some people still don't believe it's real. Not fully, anyway. I am an enigma, a freak, an unknown. On top of the physical aspects of my disability, there's the emotional labor of explaining my body to people who think they get it, but don't. People want to understand something to believe it's real. People try to judge where I fall on the severity scale before they know how to treat me: like DEFCON ratings, but for bodies.
- p. 50”
― Amy Kenny, My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church

“We may find pleasure in our duty, but our duty is not our own pleasure.”
― S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston

“My place beside you. My blood for yours. We are in this together, my friend. As you are bound to me, I am bound to you. So long as you remain loyal to the king, I am loyal to you. I am on your side. I am a brother to you.”
― S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston

“But I still say that vigilance is our clear duty. We can easily underestimate what we cannot easily understand."
"Mysteries are only perils in disguise," King Whitson said...”
― S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston

“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler.”
― S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston

“I am afraid," Fleck said, tenderly touching the prince's head. "But I keep on loving what's on the other side of this fight. And that will have to make me brave.”
― S.D. Smith, The Black Star of Kingston

“Pierre, my love for you is unconditional, just as the Lord's is. No matter where you've been or what you've done, both the Lord and I will always be waiting here with open arms.”
― Jody Hedlund, Captured by Love

“The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you can't be cheered out of. You don't need solutions. You don't need to move on from your grief. You need someone to see your grief, to acknowledge it. You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life. Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“Grief is part of love. Love for life, love for self, love for others. What you are living, painful as it is, is love. And love is really hard. Excruciating at times.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand

“Grief is visceral, not reasonable: the howling at the center of grief is raw and real. It is love in its most wild form.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“Being brave is staying present to your own heart when that heart is shattered into a million different pieces and can never be made right.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand

“I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.
"There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel...”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: An Engaging Visual Journey

“Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street - and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: An Engaging Visual Journey