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“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. ”
― Vance Havner

“We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. ”
― Peter De Vries

“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”
― Paul Harvey

“The truly happy people are those who have a source of happiness too deep to be seriously disturbed by ordinary troubles.”
― Marion K. Rich

“Every word was once a poem.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. ”
― Barbara Johnson

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Groucho Marx

“Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten. ”
― Lancelot Andrewes

“Good questions outrank easy answers.”
― Paul A. Samuelson

“We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.”
― Stephen R. Covey, First Things First

“Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.”
― Desmond Tutu

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want.”
― Ben Stein

“If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”
― John Maxwell

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, and the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Vol. 4 of 5

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”
― Robert Orben

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
― Iris Murdoch

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
― John Wooden

“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
― Barry Switzer

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

“Walk on air against your better judgement.”
― Seamus Heaney

“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.”
― Luis Palau

“Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: you can win or you can lose or it can rain.”
― Casey Stengel

“I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.”
― Florence Nightingale