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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

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"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

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"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."

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"You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going."

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"After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction."

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"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you must possess decisiveness."

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"If the goal is unknown, then abuse is inevitable."

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"Do not pay attention to difficulties and life's troubles, you only need to believe."

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"I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort."

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"For the purpose of pursuit not to be stated is to invite threatening danger."

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"The knowledge of "Where am I going?" sometimes depends on the faithfulness in little things."

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"After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive."

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"A man must get a thing before he can forget it."
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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
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