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“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
― Louis Pasteur

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
― Plato

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
― Plato

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.”
― Pope John Paul II, Love and Responsibility

“All were happy -- plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people -- adult men and women -- never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy -- a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”
― Brené Brown

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
― Isaac Asimov

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Isaac Asimov

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

“Only when it is dark enough can we see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I've Been to the Mountaintop

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom”
― Jim Rohn

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou