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“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
― Vaclav Havel

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“Every society says its outsiders are the problem. But the outsiders are not the problem; the urge to create outsiders is the problem. Overcoming that urge is our greatest challenge and our greatest promise. It will take courage and insight, because the people we push to the margins are the ones who trigger in us the feelings we’re afraid of.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World