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Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should

© Charles Dickens

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it

© Rumi
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This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him

© William Lyon Phelps

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved

© Helen Keller

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched

© Cervantes

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world

© Hannah Senesh

Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations

© Philip Breedveld

Great talent finds happiness in execution

© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens

© Epictetus