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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca the Younger

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him, and he will certainly miss him.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.