"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing."

Astor, Lady Nancy on change
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on action   

"The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on circumstance   

"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on life
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"Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will."

Cowper, William on passion   

"'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on god
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"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on fame   

"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on destiny
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"The destiny of man is in his own soul"

Herodotus on destiny
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"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."

Hubbard, Kin on destiny
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"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on america
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"Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot."

Weber, C. J. on perfection   

"Character is our destiny."

Heraclitus on character
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"Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny."

Linall Jr. A. L. on action   

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

Robbins, Anthony on decisions
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"One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."

Proverb, French on destiny
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"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule..."

Einstein, Albert on service
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"The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny."

Speakman, Frederick on decisions
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

Tolkien, J. R. on farewells
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

Tolkien, J. R. on procrastination
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"I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about."

Tolkien, J. R. on language   

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."

Lewis, C. S. on miracles
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

Lewis, C. S. on pain
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"God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain."

Lewis, C. S. on pleasure
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"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you."

Lewis, C. S. on pride
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"The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event."

Lewis, C. S. on truth   

"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."

Lewis, C. S. on christians and christianity
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"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

Lewis, C. S. on courage   

"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?"

Lewis, C. S. on death
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"It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."

Lewis, C. S. on death
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"It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere."

Lewis, C. S. on miracles   

"Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

Lewis, C. S. on humankind
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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

Lewis, C. S. on hell
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on inferiority
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"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on happiness
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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