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- Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."
- Halford E. Luccock
- Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.
- Author Unknown
- Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Charles Dudley
- When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
- Judith Rossner
- True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Whitheead
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.
- Author Unknown
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