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- I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
- Gloria Naylor
- Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
- Shakespeare
- Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
- David Searls
- Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
- Katherine Hepburn
- If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.
- Unknown
- In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Ben Johnson, Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
- For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.
- Millard Fuller
- It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), South Africa, 1966
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