"What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

Voltaire, French Writer

Life, Spirit, Word

"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!"

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Many, Force, Existence

"Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Life, Humor, Laughter, Truth, Perspective

"The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

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"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

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"Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these."

Friendship

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

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"Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity."

Learning

"Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you'd live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero."

Strength

"I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle."

"Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!"

"Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind."

"Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter."

"The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter."

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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."

"What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it's yours."

"Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these."

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

"Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity."

"Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you'd live unconquered,Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:Every wife an Amazon bred,And every child a hero."

"He who moves not forward, goes backward."

"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

"I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool."

"I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."