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“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
“The significance of life is living.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”
Charles Spurgeon
“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”
— Frances Wright
“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.”
Maya Angelou
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
Audre Lorde
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
— John Quincy Adams
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
— Anne Lamott
“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”
Victor Hugo
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
Jonathan Swift
“She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.”
— Kenji Miyazawa
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
— Pericles
“You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.”
Sathya Sai Baba
“To be human is to be 'a' being, that is, a being that has learned to be a person.”
— Peter Sloterdijk
“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“yeah this could actually be a dope rap beat”
— Leslie Hochsztein
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”
— Mario Puzo
“True redemption is when guilt leads to good.”
— Khaled Hosseini
“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Pablo Picasso
“The good of the people is the chief law.”
Cicero
“Adversity is the tempering of one's mettle. Without it, we cannot know any true meaning in our accomplishments.”
Ming-Dao Deng

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