Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
James Baldwin

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller

Nothing great was ever accomplished by something happening to you. You have to happen to something.
Brandon Iurato

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
Kurt Hahn

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Aristotle

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Francis Bacon

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
Pearl S. Buck

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Maya Angelou

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert

Identification with an organization or a cause is no substitute for self-realization.
Swami Rudrananda

Self-preservaton is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler

I am the light of the world. I am an instrument of the divine. I am the Greatest miracle in the world. The truth of who I am cannot be altered or changed. The way I treat myself determines how others will treat me.
Iyanla Vanzant

Peace be still. Be still and know that God's good is at work in this experience.
Catherine Ponder

We must enjoy life. Don't merely survive it.
AJ Little

It is necessary for the happiness of a man to be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Pain

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