“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even […]
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“Carpe Diem = Seize the Day”
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“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” – Plato
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“The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.” – Criss Jami
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“People who are trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off why should I?” – Bob Marley
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“We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments […]
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“There’s always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Graham Greene
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“Friendship is born at the moment one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was, the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis
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“To expect too much compassion from yourself might be a little destructive of your own existence. Even so, at least make a try, and this goes not only for individuals but also for life itself. It’s so easy. It’s a fashionable idiocy of youth to say the world has not come up to your expectations. “What? I was coming, and […]
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“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people someplace to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” – Ken Kesey
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