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- Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
- Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
- Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
- From the last episode of "Cheers"
- The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.
- Frederick Buechner
- We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
- The Metro Para pledge
- Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar
- Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
- Count Oxenstierna
- Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
- Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
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