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"Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity."
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"Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done."
"Seek wisdom, and success will find you."
"The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community."
"Strive toward what you know you must achieve, in confident & courageous manner."
"For every success, there is a system."
"Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset."
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."
"For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant."
"I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting."
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"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."
"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful."
"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."
"We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us."
"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."
"It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns."
"We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others."
"True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques."
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