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- That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), The Arm of the Starfish, 1965
- There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark, 1915
- We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912
- If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
- Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
- Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
- Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
- Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader's Digest, 1979
- The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
- Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
- Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915
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