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“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”

— Marie Curie, Physicist and first woman to win the Nobel Prize

“I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to learn to solve.
I asked for prosperity, and God gave me a brain and brawn to work.
I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome.
I asked for love, and God gave me people to help.
I asked for favors, and God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted.
I received everything I needed.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

— Helen Keller

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”

— Mother Teresa (St Teresa of Kolkata)

“The one who is outside the door has already a good part of their journey behind them.”

— Dutch proverb

“I urge you to: Trudge not through life leaving ugly gashes, Tiptoe not through life leaving half-formed impressions, But tread gently, lovingly and purposefully Leaving graceful heart-prints.”

— Unity Dow, the Botswana High Court Judge

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

— Mark Twain

“Courage is not the absence of fear. It is going forward with the face of fear.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the US does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.”

— Robert Jackson, US Prosecutor at Nuremberg, 1946

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin
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