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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying"
William Edward Hickson, Writer
"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle, or children playing in the park?"
Ralph Marston, Writer
"Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work"
Ralph Marston, Writer
"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer
"The creative adult is the child who has survived"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer
"The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be righted and all rights will be rewarded"
Eli Khamarov, Writer
"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian"
Frank Herbert, Writer
"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror"
Frank Herbert, Writer
"Love conquers all"
Virgil, Writer
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"
Jane Austen, Writer
"What is right to be done cannot be done too soon"
Jane Austen, Writer
"It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
Jane Austen, Writer
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself"
Henry Miller, Writer
"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance"
Henry Miller, Writer
"One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things"
Henry Miller, Writer
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success"
Dale Carnegie, Writer
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way"
Dale Carnegie, Writer
"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale"
Arthur C. Clarke, Writer
"Happiness is an inside job"
William Arthur Ward, Writer
"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel"
Napoleon Hill, Writer
"Virtue can only flourish among equals"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"The beginning is always today"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"If none were to marry, but men of strict vertue and honour, I doubt the world would be but thinly peopled"
Mary Astell, Writer
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