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The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. - Pierre de Coubertin
“You must not ever stop being whimsical. ...” - Mary Oliver
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health. - Saint Basil
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” —Maya Angelou
To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult. - Isaac Asimov
"Wolves are the witches of the animal world." -Katherine Rundell
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov
Edgar Allan Poe: "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity"
There are always two forces warring against each other within us. - Paramahansa Yogananda
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation. - Zebulon Pike
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. - Umberto Eco
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac
The moon was crying too, but the wolf never knew. (Ron Israel)
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." — Cherie Carter-Scott
“The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.” – J R Tolkien
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Light, warm, and cozy are the perfect antidote to dark, cold, and creepy.
Candice Olson
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. - David Bowie
"No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again." - Buddha
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. - Nicolas Chamfort
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” — Aristotle
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. - Jimmy Carter
“A wolf is no less a wolf because he’s dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he’s dressed as an angel.” – Lecrae
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. - Albert Einstein
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Nelson Mandela
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Thomas Aquinas
“Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.”—Twyla Tharp
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
I grew up in an environment of jokes, sarcasm, and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
Allan Sloan
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. - Edmund Burke
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them. - Laurence J. Peter
“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
― Nicholas Sparks
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere. - George Burns
“The black wolf’s curse awakes every time that a full moon points in the middle of the sky.” – Pet Torres
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” - Voltaire
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. - Alexis Carrel
“Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.” – German Proverb
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education. “ Mark Twain.
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato
If we can’t face death, we’ll never overcome it. – Maya Lin
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” ― Aesop