"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
—John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I’d like to see more optimism about the future!”
–-Friedrich Merz
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
-– George Eliot
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
—Carl Sandburg
“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society.”
—Henrik Ibsen, The Pillars of Society
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who need it most always like it least."
—Lord Chesterfield
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
– Buddha
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
— Howard Thurman
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
—Helen Keller
"Harmony and contrast. All beauty comes from these two things. You see, few objects are beautiful or ugly of themselves. To know that is the beginning of being an artist."
—Vatel
“Boredom may become Western man’s greatest source of unhappiness."
--Robert Nisbet
“When we get what we want, we always get more than we bargained for.”
—Journal Note
“... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
—Susan Ertz
"I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored."
–Erich Fromm
"Flattery is counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation."
-- La Rochefoucauld
"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
—Thomas Carlyle
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
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