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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Author object (531)

If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. - Author object (531)

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - Author object (570)

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. - Author object (570)

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. - Author object (570)

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. - Author object (570)

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. - Author object (570)

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. - Author object (570)

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - Author object (570)

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. - Author object (570)

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions. - Author object (570)

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. - Author object (570)

You are the music while the music lasts. - Author object (570)

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near. - Author object (531)

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel. - Author object (570)

Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - Author object (570)

I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful. - Author object (570)

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. - Author object (158)

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. - Author object (158)

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. - Author object (158)