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- The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
- Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
- Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.
- Robert Veninga
- When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
- You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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