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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. - Author object (108)

What can be explained is not poetry. - Author object (498)

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - Author object (498)

There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet. - Author object (498)

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - Author object (498)

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. - Author object (498)

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - Author object (498)

There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live. - Author object (442)

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. - Author object (435)

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come,we are not. - Author object (435)

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. - Author object (435)

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. - Author object (435)

Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back. - Author object (435)

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision. - Author object (163)

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Author object (163)

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Author object (163)

Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love - Author object (163)

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. - Author object (163)

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. - Author object (163)

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. - Author object (163)