Quotes July 13, 2018

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass,
orator, writer and abolitionist
 
 
 
 
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring.
Herman Melville,
writer
 
 
 
 
“Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.”
Stephenie Meyer
 
 
 
 
“How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you’ll soon discover what you’re like.”
Goethe
 
 
 
 
“Being happy never goes out of style.”
Lily Pulitzer
 
 
 
 
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is right now.”
Roy T. Bennett
 
 
 
 
“The first recipe for happiness is to avoid lengthy meditation on the past.”
Andre Maurois
 
 
 
 
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
Carol Burnett
 
 
 
 
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
Jim Rohn
 
 
 
 
“The ability to apologize sincerely and express regret for the unskillful things we say or do is an art. A true apology can relieve a great deal of suffering in the other person.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
 
 
 
“People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you will know exactly what to do.”
Anonymous
 
 
 
 
“I used to dislike being sensitive. I thought it made me weak. But take away that single trait, and you take away the very essence of who I am. You take away my conscience, my ability to empathize, my intuition, my creativity, my deep appreciation of the little things, my vivid inner life, my keen awareness of others pain and my passion for it all.
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