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Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. Mattie Stepanek
Sad Live Sad Things Forever Happen Things Things Happen Need
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. May Sarton
Human Being Hero Think Must Merely Like Behave Human Decent Being
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it. Maya Angelou
You Yourself Will First Enslaved Must Some Allies He He Or She She First Thing Person The First Thing Cut Convince Your Help Deserves Thing Second Third
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up. Maya Angelou
Truth People Honor Older Difficult Damn Too Find Marry Nerve Parking Most Up Get Children Spaces Happens Grow Grow Up Credit Credit Cards Cards
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Maya Angelou
Travel People Try Become Other Worry Laugh Introduce Eat Prevent Idea Perhaps Cry Understand Demonstrating Friends Die May Cannot Even Each
Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else. Maya Angelou
Alone You Library Happy Somebody Lost Else Everyone Everyone Else See Only Mississippi Wept Been Any Different Information Really Tokyo Who Helps
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. Nikki Giovanni
You Yourself Else Understand Anybody Anybody Else
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. Omar Khayyam
Myself Great Doctor Argument Young Out About Frequent Saint Came Heard Did Same Door Eagerly Evermore
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again. Omar Khayyam
Life Today Wise Fate Tomorrow Will Living Vain Thou Though Tell Never Come Pass Nor Again Canst Therefore Living Life
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. Ovid
Beautiful Rest Field Rested Crop Gives Take
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times. Ovid
Morning You Three First Before Believe Every Say Out Arise First Thing Loud Times Thing
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself. Rabindranath Tagore
Myself Burden Laugh Self
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree. Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom Soil Tree Emancipation Bondage
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. Rabindranath Tagore
Art Man Soul Creative Response Call Real
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. Rainer Maria Rilke
Life You Difficult Classes Most Deal Always Beginners Asked Away Right Right Away
Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time Nothing Manners Haste More Vulgar Than Require
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gift Greatest Gift Thyself Greatest Portion
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life Beautiful Try No-One Sincerely Himself Another Without Help Helping
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. Robert Frost
Injustice Mercy Nothing Make Just
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. Robert W. Service
Win Steady Lifelong Quiet Race Who
When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine. Rumi
You Become Angels Shall Die Cannot Soar Imagine
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim. Rumi
Myself Christian Say Muslim Muslims Neither Shall Know Am Nor Jew
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. Samuel Butler
Nature Way Only Another Making Egg Hen
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. Samuel Butler
Great You Fool Yourself Dog Will Too Pleasure Only Great Pleasure He Make Him Himself Scold May
What I want back is what I was. Sylvia Plath
Back Want
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. Sylvia Plath
Positive Life Negative My Life Despairing Run Running Joyous Were Currents Electric Moment Floods Two
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