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  • #1
    Joshua Harris
    “The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.”
    Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye: Study Guide

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

  • #3
    Paulo Coelho
    “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #4
    Helen Keller
    “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
    Helen Keller

  • #5
    Helen Keller
    “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
    Helen Keller

  • #6
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “It can't beat us!" Pa said.
    "Can't it, Pa?" Laura asked stupidly.
    "No," said Pa. "It's got to quit sometime and we don't. It can't lick us. We won't give up."
    Then Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Howard Zinn
    “Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes.

    And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.”
    Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

  • #9
    Helen Keller
    “So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
    Helen Keller

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
    Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

  • #12
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

  • #13
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which are likely to be just as good as any other person's.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder, Before the Prairie: The Small Farm

  • #14
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy

  • #15
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
    Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

  • #23
    “It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
    Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
    Mark Twain

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
    Mark Twain

  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
    Mark Twain

  • #29
    Helen Keller
    “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
    Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

  • #30
    Helen Keller
    “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
    Helen Keller



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