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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
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“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
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“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― The Open Door
― The Open Door
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
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“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
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“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
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“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”
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“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
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“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
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“The highest result of education is tolerance”
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“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
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“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
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“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.”
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“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
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“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
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“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
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“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world”
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“Literature is my Utopia”
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“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content”
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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
― The Open Door
― The Open Door
“Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within”
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“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
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“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
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“Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.”
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement ”
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“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
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