Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
John M. McHugh
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Daniel Webster
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Khalil Gibran
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Charles Lamb
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire
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