"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."

Ovid on perseverance
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"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"

Socrates on death
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"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."

Socrates on glory
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"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates on growth
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"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on change
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"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

Wilder, Laura Ingalls on things and little things   

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

Lois, George on creativity
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

Dickinson, Emily on art
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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things."

Eliot, T. S. on poetry and poets
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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on attitude
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