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Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

© Paulo Coelho

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

© Thomas Edison

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

© Henry David Thoreau

Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

© D.H. Lawrence
#travel

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

© Benjamin Franklin

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

© F. Scott Fitzgerald
#love

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

© Theodore Roosevelt

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

© Elisabeth Elliot

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

© George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

© George Bernard Shaw