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“You may be capable of great things,
But life consists of small things.”
― Deng Ming-Dao

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.”
― Jules Renard

“Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.”
― Evan Esar

“You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.”
― Leo Burnett

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
-Philippians 4:6”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.”
― Abraham Maslov

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
― Confucius