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“I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.”
― Paul Torday, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

tags: belief, fishing, wisdom

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“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.”
― George Washington Carver

tags: love

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“Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.”
― George Washington Carver

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“I believe in it because it is impossible.”
― Paul Torday, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

tags: belief, impossible

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“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom

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