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"As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it."
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"Three weeks ago, he'd seen hail fall from the sky, onlyto be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it's important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion."
"The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds."
"Life becomes perfect if I look at it through my imperfect perceptions."
"It is not very important where you are, but where your thoughts are taking you is important."
"If the journey to success and happiness was hundred miles, some people would calculate it by meters and get discouraged by the numbers they come up with."
"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."
"Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world."
"You are looking at the world from your window, that's good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself!"
"The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work."
"The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it."
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"Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. We are all creatures of our own devising."
"But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die."
"When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope."
"In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move."
"Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more."
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