"It was better to know the worst than to wonder."

Margaret Mitchell

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

William Arthur Ward

"Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?"

Jodi Picoult

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"Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future."

Dale Turner

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"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, remains and is immortal."

Albert Pine

"Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade."

Haruki Murakami

"When we have developed our own inner purity, inner compassion, and inner love, we can then see the reflection of this purity and loving kindness in others. But if we have not contacted these qualities within ourselves, we will see everyone as ugly and limited. For whatever we see everyday in outer reality is actually nothing more than a projection of our own inner reality."

Lama Yeshe

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

Charles Dickens

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"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner

"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton