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“Laughter is sweet when enjoyed alone. But it becomes sweeter when you enjoy it together with the people around you. Your success must lead to the success others.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Abraham Lincoln said, “I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can and the balance upon faith, and you will live and die a better man.” Coleridge said he believed the Bible to be the Word of God because, as he put it, “It finds me.” “If you want encouragement,” John Bunyan wrote, “entertain the promises.”
― Billy Graham

“We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”
― Nelson Mandela

“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing. Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of suspending disbelief, that unspoiled appetite, that readiness to wonder, to pity, and to admire?”
― C.S. Lewis

“You prove to people that you don’t pay attention to their words when they see that you don’t remember what they tell you earlier.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“It takes two to make a quarrel. If I do not want to quarrel with a Mahomedan, the latter will be powerless to foist a quarrel on me; and, similarly, I should be powerless if a Mahomedan refuses his assistance to quarrel with me.
― Mahatma Gandhi

“What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision.”
― Barack Obama

“Monkeys play by their sizes. Smaller tasks mostly come with smaller challenges. If you are willing to take step-by-step methods to solve bigger tasks, you will easily overcome challenges that attempt to stop you! Go, give a try!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.”
― C.S. Lewis

In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by passions; and there was the same complex mental and moral life among the upper classes, where were in some instances even more refined than now. If we have come to believe in the perversity and coarse violence of that period, that is only because the traditions, memoirs, stories, and novels that have been handed to us, record for the most part exceptional cases of violence and brutality. To suppose that the predominant characteristic of that period was turbulence, is as unjust as it would before a man, seeing nothing but the tops of trees beyond a hill, to conclude that there was nothing to be found in that locality but trees.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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