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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk with love.
If you are not in love, how can you enjoy
the blinding light of the sun,
the soft light of the moon?

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith – and that nothing has to be proven.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.