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“Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they have never moved from.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Clara n me was always close. Growin up it was me for her and her for me. You probably don’t know about a thing like that, you strike as a mighty cold fish, but that’s how it was.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away.
Song of Solomon 8:7”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.”
― Emil Ludwig

“Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Märchen. Der neue Paris. Die neue Melusine. Das Märchen.

“Two hearts in love need no words.”
― Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Louis Aragon, Selected Poems of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

“Until the stars burn out, and all worlds end, until the planets collide, and the suns wither, until the moon’s light dies, and the rivers and seas run out, until I grow so old that my memories fade away, and my tongue cannot say your name, until my heart beats for the last time, only then .. will I maybe stop, maybe.”
― Ahmed Khaled Tawfik

“This armchair strategist never possessed the qualities for true generalship, because he ignored practical problems.”
― Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

“German soldiers made use of Stalingrad orphans themselves. Daily tasks, such as filling water-bottles, were dangerous when Russian snipers lay in wait for any movement. So, for the promise of a crust of bread, they would get Russian boys and girls to take their water-bottles down to the Volga’s edge to fill them. When the Soviet side realized what was happening, Red Army soldiers shot children on such missions.”
― Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

“Stalin, whose bullying nature contained a strong streak of cowardice,”
― Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943