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“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
C.S. Lewis
“The highest wisdom is to understand that all men are mad.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
— Milton Berle
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”
Colin Powell
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Maya Angelou
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
Dalai Lama
“Stuff your eyes with wonder... live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
Ray Bradbury
“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”
Earl Nightingale
“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ”
Franz Kafka
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”
Voltaire
“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.”
Blaise Pascal
“Be as fluid as water, do not give your enemies anything solid to attack.”
Robert Greene
“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.”
Charles Dickens
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
Albus Dumbledore
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
Aristotle
“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.”
Ralph Marston
“For your life to be great, your faith must be bigger than your fear.”
Robin Sharma
“Winners forget they're in a race, they just love to run.”
— Simon Wilder
“I had a cat once, but every time I tried to give him a bath, the fur stuck to my tongue.”
— Murdock
“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
Albert Einstein

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