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“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.”
― Sister Souljah

“A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.”
― Adrian Rogers

“A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.”
― Bob Harrington

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
― Samuel Lover, Rory O'More

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.”
― Alyson Noel, Dark Flame

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
― George Sand, Correspondance, 1812-1876; Volume 5

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“Don't trip over haters, step over them”
― Darrin Lowery

“Sometimes a man doesn't want to be strong. Sometimes a man just wants to be human.”
― Victoria Christopher Murray, Never Say Never

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

“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