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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

~ Clarence Darrow

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When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

~ Edgar Watson Howe

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

~ John Harington

As soon as you concern yourself with the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation, and kept it.

~ Andrew Carnegie

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

~ Rabbi Abraham Heschel

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one’s preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

~ Jean Cocteau

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

~ Jim Rohn

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

~ Albert Clarke

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

~ Clive Staples Lewis

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