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“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.”
― M.A.Kelty

“The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.”
― Charles H Spurgeon

“Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.”
― Charles H Spurgeon

“The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.”
― Charles H Spurgeon

“A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.”
― Charles H Spurgeon

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
― John Quincy Adams

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Sometimes...fear does not subside and...one must choose to do it afraid.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

“A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey, but a woman of strength knows that it is in the journey where she will become strong.”
― Luke Easter

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
― Henry Ford

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves