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“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity”
― Seneca,, Dialogues and Letters

“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.”
― Arnold Bennett

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Love of bustle is not industry.”
― Seneca the Younger

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
― Seneca

“To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.”
― Seneca

“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.”
― Seneca

“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
― Seneca

“The best ideas are common property”
― Seneca

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
― Zlata Filipović

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“My life is like tofu—it's what gets added that makes it interesting.”
― Angela Johnson, A Certain October

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
― Maya Angelou

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love