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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. - Author object (131)

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. - Author object (131)

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. - Author object (131)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Author object (131)

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart - Author object (131)

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. - Author object (131)

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. - Author object (131)

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. - Author object (131)

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - Author object (21)

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. - Author object (24)

'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. - Author object (24)

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. - Author object (24)

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. - Author object (24)

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. - Author object (24)

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. - Author object (333)

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Author object (263)

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Author object (24)

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Author object (164)

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - Author object (21)

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away. - Author object (457)