Powerful Thoughts On Life

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Everything has its wonders,
even darkness and silence.
Helen Keller

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How oft the darkest hour of ill
breaks brightest into dawn.
Euripides

Enlightenment begins on
the other-side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Be brave, and rise superior to
your sorrows, and maintain a
spirit that cannot be broken.
Ovid

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Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
J.R.R. Tolkien

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Be still my heart; thou hast
known worse than this.
Homer

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Let us bear with magnanimity
whatever it is needful for us to bear.
Seneca

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And life is what we make it,
always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses

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In the depth of winter, I finally
learned that within me there
lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

Have courage for the great sorrows of
life and patience for the small ones;
and when you have laboriously
accomplished your daily task, go
to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo

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Never despair, but if you do,
work on in despair.
Edmund Burke

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Let us go singing as far as we go:
the road will be less tedious.
Virgil

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Life is either a daring adventure
or nothing.
Helen Keller

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If I keep a green bough in my heart,
the singing bird will come.
Chinese Proverb

Far away in the sunshine are my highest
aspirations. I may not reach them, but I
can look up and see their beauty; believe
in them and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

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Live your life while you have it.
Life is a splendid gift*there is
nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale

It is our duty as men and women
to proceed as though the limits to
our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is the character of a brave and
resolute man not to ruffled by
adversity and not to desert his post.
Cicero

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I beg you take courage; the brave
soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine of Russia

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa

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A wildflower on the mountain top would
not change places with a rose in the garden.
Armenian Proverb

If one advances confidently in the direction
of his dreams, and endeavors to live the
life he has imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes I go about with pity for
myself and all the while Great Winds
are carrying me across the sky.
Ojibway Saying

To me, every hour of the day and night
is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Walt Whitman

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