Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.
Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.
The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.
I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.
The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.
Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.
Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
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