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“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.”
― John C. Maxwell

“You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you’ve had color how you see things. It is your lens.”
― John C. Maxwell

“It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
― Bill Gates

“I am not who people say I am. I am who God says I am.”
― Joel Osteen

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
― Bill Gates

“What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.”
― Frank Herbert

“If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”
― Zig Ziglar

“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Who am I? I am that which thou hast searched for since thy baby eyes gazed wonderingly upon the world, whose horizon hides this real life from thee. I am that which in thy heart thou hast prayed for, demanded as thy birthright, although thou hast not known what it was. I am that which has lain in thy soul for hundreds and thousands of years. Sometimes I lay in thee grieving because thou didst not recognize me; sometimes I raised my head, opened my eyes, and extended my arms calling thee either tenderly and quietly, or strenuously, demanding that thou shouldst rebel against the iron chains which bound thee to the earth.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.”
― C.S. Lewis

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