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“Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
― Jim Rohn

“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ”
― Jim Rohn

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
― Jim Rohn

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

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

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“The highest result of education is tolerance”
― Helen Keller

“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
― Helen Keller

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
― Helen Keller

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”
― Helen Keller

“We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller

“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”
― Hellen Keller

“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
― Helen Keller

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
― Helen Keller

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”
― Helen Keller

“To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.”
― Bill Watterson

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
― Thomas Szasz

“You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
― Carl Sagan

“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.”
― Ludwig Borne

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
― Jim Rohn

“Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.”
― Jim Rohn

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planed for you? Not much.”
― Jim Rohn