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- Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.
- M. R. Vincent
- Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!
- Harold Sherman
- It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
- Thomas Brackett Reed
- He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
- George Lorimer
- However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
- Richard E. Byrd
- If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
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