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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
― Mother Teresa
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. - Tacitus
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. - Henry David Thoreau
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. - Aesop
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. - Edward R. Murrow
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. - William Butler Yeats
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. - Albert Einstein
“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. - Voltaire
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. - Tennessee Williams
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. - H. L. Mencken
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
Chinese Proverb
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. - Thomas Fuller
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
-Sarah Williams
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain