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- Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
- John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
- We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
- Jean Toomer
- One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
- The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
- To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
- Peter Farquharson
- The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
- Henry Boye
- It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
- Clarence Jordan
- Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
- Will Smith
- History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
- Mark Yost
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