"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

Faulkner, William on Failure
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"The salvation of the world is in man's suffering."

Faulkner, William on Suffering
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

Hoppe, C. on Achievement
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"Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything."

Doudan, X. on Individuality
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"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."

Brownlow, Leroy on Silence
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"The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."

Hubbard, Elbert on Silence
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"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on Difficulties
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

Frost, Robert on Life and Living
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"Right human relations is the only true peace."

Bailey, Alice A. on Peace
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on Eccentricity
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"What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?"

Stein, Gertrude on Famous Last Words
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"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

LeGuin, Ursula K. on Sanity
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"It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull."

Conrad, Joseph on Illusion
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Hesse, Hermann on Hatred
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on Forgiveness
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on Love
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"Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other."

Macarthur, Douglas on Courage
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on Action
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Courage
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