"Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns."

Feidelson, Charles on life   

"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."

Wolff, Tobias on perseverance   

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on faith
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."

Eliot, George on doubt
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"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve."

Borysenko, Joan on tension   

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome."

Allen, R. C. on growth
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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

Coolidge, Calvin on growth
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"The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition."

Rankin, Jeannette on women   

"Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect."

Parker, Theodore on self-respect
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"Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on relationship   

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Hammarskjold, Dag on purpose
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"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."

Carnegie, Dale on happiness
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"If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength."

Ruskin, John on success
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"Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps."

Bellin, Gita on purpose
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"You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say."

Brown, Les on purpose
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"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."

Yeats, William Butler on love   

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"There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated."

Pilgrim, Peace on hatred
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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on writers and writing
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"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Bach, Richard on farewells
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"Life is like a grindstone -- whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of."

Unknown, Source on life
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Ackerman, Diane on life
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"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."

Proverb, Scottish on happiness
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"When you're through changing, you're through."

Barton, Bruce on change
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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden, John on mistakes
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"No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life."

Marden, Orison Swett on mistakes
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"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."

Hoffer, Eric on discontent
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"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

La Bruyere, Jean De on miracles
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"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start."

Bingham, John on running
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"In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles."

Bailey, Henry Christopher on faith
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"For every mountain there is a miracle."

Schuller, Robert H. on obstacles
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"Do anything, even the impossible; it may only take a little longer when a miracle is required."

Unknown, Source on miracles
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"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Todays military rejects include tomorrows hard core unemployed. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised   

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

Jefferson, Thomas on soldier
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"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

Patton, George S. on soldier
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"In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things."

Burke, Edmund on army and navy   

"“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”"

Barton, Clara on soldier   

"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."

Unknown, Source on adulthood
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"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying It got lost, and say, I lost it."

Harris, Sidney J. on adulthood
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