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“follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it.”
― Marguerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall

“that I may take hold of the life that is truly life. The Good Life to me is this: a life rich in faith, family, friends, and creativity. It is a life full of the richness that God has to offer; a life spent building treasures in heaven rather than here on earth. It is not a life of laziness and greed, but one of discipline, hard work, and self-reflection. It may not always be easy or comfortable, but it is always full in abundance and completely secure in Christ.”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“Books that were of God—books written by the Mormon prophets or the Founding Fathers—were not to be studied so much as cherished, like a thing perfect in itself. I had been taught to read the words of men like Madison as a cast into which I ought to pour the plaster of my own mind, to be reshaped according to the contours of their faultless”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.”
― Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

“Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity.

There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity.

There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

“hell is full of good wishes and desires.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

“Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux, On the Song of Songs 1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The reward of friendship is friendship itself.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship