Helen Keller Quote – Character
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
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Teddy Roosevelt Quote – Dare Mighty Things
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Teddy Roosevelt
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Joan Didion Quote – Was It Only By Dreaming
“Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?” – Joan Didion
Read moreBartlett’s Book of Anecdotes – “waldo, why are you not here?”
Henry Thoreau was languishing in jail after he had refused to pay the Massachusetts poll tax in 1843 [to protest the Mexican-American War], Ralph Waldo Emerson came to visit him and asked him why he was there. “Waldo, why are you not here?” said Thoreau. – Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes
Read moreTheodore Roosevelt Quote – Worth Having or Worth Doing
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Read moreCarlos Ruiz Zafón Quote – Speaking To A Stranger
“Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?” . . . “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Read moreMartin Luther King Jr. Quote – Anybody Can Serve
“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Read moreOprah Winfrey – The Best of Times is Now
“The best of times is now!” – Oprah Winfrey
Read moreRobert Frost Quote – Half The World
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” – Robert Frost
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