Famous Quotes . . .

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[Sarah25]

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Benjamin Franklin

 

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[Sarah25]

"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."

- Wallace Stegner

 

[Sarah25]

“When one door closes, another door opens; but we so often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

― Alexander Graham Bell

 

[Sarah25]

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”

― Epictetus

 

[Sarah25]

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

― C.S. Lewis

 

[blunthead]

“Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.” —Jimmy Page

 

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[Becks19]

Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy-watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship, keep them till full-blown; You will find more happiness than you have ever known.
- Amy R. Raabe

 

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[Sarah25]

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”

― Paulo Coelho

 

[Becks19]

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
- Simone de Beauvoir

 

[Neesy]

Spoiler

This is one of my favourites - can you believe I only heard this one in 2013? - it literally changed my point of view on some troubles I was having at that time.

 

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[Sarah25]

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

[Haunted]

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another,
shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement."
~Thomas Jefferson

 

[prufrock21]

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
--T.S. Eliot