George Barrell Cheever

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever-present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

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Anais Nin

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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Paul Auster

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

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Seneca

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

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Aesop

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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Johann von Goethe

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

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Siddha Nagarjuna

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

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Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.

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Ellen Goodman

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

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