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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
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"It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better."

"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

"None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn't stop anyone from trying to make the climb."

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith."

"If you failure, do not give up. Find new strength to climb the stairway to success."

"An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible."

"Often when we are on the path to success we come across obstacles that seem to be like mountains."

"Failure is only but a temporary phenomenon."

"In every situation, may we find the grace of endurance."

"A star will shine in the midst of darkness. A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt. A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt. A diamond will form in the midst of pressure. A champion will rise in the midst of hardship."
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"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."

"He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt that his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength."

"I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be."

"What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!"

"Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement."

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."

"The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically."

"He was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk."
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