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By perseverance the snail reached the ark. - Charles Spurgeon
"Architecture is by its nature slow. It takes time for ideas to become places."
~ Leo Tolstoy
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. - Thich Nhat Hanh
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. - Plato
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. - Indira Gandhi
You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on
your way.”
Dr. Seuss
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” —Ernest Hemingway
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. - Robert Burns
'Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.' -Leo Tolstoy
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. - Henry Ward Beecher
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey
Friends applaud, the comedy is over. – Ludwig van Beethoven
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. - Walter Savage Landor
“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope
The guilty think all talk is of themselves. - Geoffrey Chaucer
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. - Aldous Huxley
“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity. - Yoshijiro Umezu
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. - Havelock Ellis
"A good laugh is sunshine in the house." — William Thackeray
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. - Bernard Williams
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald