The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.
The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger.
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