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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Robertson Davies Quote – Satisfactory Future
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.” – Robertson Davies
Read moreDouglas Adams Quote – Understand Something
“If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.” – Douglas Adams
Read moreTeddy 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
Read moreUnifinished
“Unfinished… Gauti to his credit never gave up on his dream but that is usually not how it goes, i mean usually it isn’t a speeding bus that keeps the brown pointy weird church from being built. Most of the time it’s just too difficult or too expensive or too scary, it’s only once you’ve stopped, that you realize how […]
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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 moreBarbara De Angelis Quote – You Never Lose By Loving
“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” ― Barbara De Angelis
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
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