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If we lift one weary hand which hangs down, if we bring peace to one struggling soul, if we give as did the Master, we can—by showing the way—become a guiding star for some lost mariner. Thomas S. Monson
Thus content with an inner sphere which they inhabit together, it is not immediately that the outward world can obtrude itself upon their notice. Nathaniel Hawthorne
He took a look at the blond girl’s eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love. Milan Kundera
There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which I enjoyed with my parents, my childish affections and carefree, irresponsible existence in a gentle and affectionate ambience. But my interest is reserved for the steps that I took in my life towards self-realization. All the pleasant points of repose, islands of happiness, paradises whose magic was not unknown to me can remain, as far as I am concerned, in the enchanted... Herman Hesse
Unk, standing at a porthole, wept quietly. He was weeping for love, for family, for friendship, for truth, for civilization. The things he wept for were all abstractions, since his memory could furnish few faces or artifacts with which his imagination might fashion a passion play. Kurt Vonnegut
Raymond Chandler quote: "A classical education saves you from being fooled by..."
A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of. Raymond Chandler
Clare Boothe Luce quote: "Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount."
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. Clare Boothe Luce
Stendhal quote: "Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you..."
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. Stendhal
I've found that many of the people who have a passion for karaoke too often have misplaced confidence, which can become aggressive and border on sadistic. I know my limits, and karaoke is where I draw the line. I wouldn't put anyone through the hell of listening to me sing a song, and I sure as shit wouldn't wait in line to do it. Chelsea Handler
There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else. Robert Louis Stevenson
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth,..."
There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Fyodor Dostoevsky
For she was clever. It had not been a lie then, that ecstasy which had visited her when she read A Midsummer Night's Dream on top of the railway coach last summer. It had meant something. She had understood something. She was drunk with an intoxicating wine of gladness. Winifred Holtby
The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond. George W. Bush
Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth. Henri Nouwen
Ann Patchett quote: "In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in..."
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant. Ann Patchett

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