Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
– Helen Keller
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
– Maya Angelou
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
– Winston Churchill
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
– Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
– Mark Twain
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
– Rumi
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
– Rumi
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
– Lewis Carroll
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
– Lewis Carroll
Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.
– F.Scott Fitzgerald
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.
– Lord Alfred Tennyson
How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
– E.E.Cummings
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No social stability without individual stability.
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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