"Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."

Chapin Jr., Roy D. on Opportunity
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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."

Gauguin, Paul on Stupidity
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"The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live."

Andrus, Ethel Percy on Giving
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"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]"

Bible on Death and Dying
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"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

Clark, Frank A. on Direction
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"It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Direction
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on Purpose
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"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Self-sacrifice
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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

Hull, Raymond on Approval
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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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