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“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

“If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler

“One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.”
― John Mark Green

“Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly our options widen.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“In the end, she became more than what she expected, she became the journey, and like all journeys, she did not end, she just simply changed directions and kept going.”
― Ellen Joy, Lakeside Lighthouse: Romantic Women's Fiction