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“Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he should talk to me, not of himself or me, but of something else, as though it mattered what happened outside us. Only much later I began to have some slight understanding of his cares and to be interested in them.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.”
C.S. Lewis

“Life is not fair, get used to it”
Bill Gates

“Develop a can-do-spirit and be sure you are not suppressed by the naysayers whose daily actions are meant to discourage you from achieving what you believe.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“We the uninformed, working for the inaccessible, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful!”
John C. Maxwell

“Don't fear failure...in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
Bruce Lee

“Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
Leo Tolstoy

“Words are the currency of ideas and have the power to change the world.”
John C. Maxwell

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.” 
Rick Warren

“You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.”
Zig Ziglar

“This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam?
Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.”
Albert Einstein

“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
Oprah Winfrey

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