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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
- Victor Hugo
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
- Brian Tracy
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
- William Nicholson
It is inevitable that a tragedy should arouse sorrowful feelings. Still, out of that sorrow itself comes a feeling of triumph – the victory of the human will over the most adverse circumstances. And thus out of sorrow and defeat come joy and victory.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.
- Deb Caletti
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
- J. Krishnamurti
To whom praise and blame are equal, who is silent, content with every fortune, home-renouncing, steadfast in mind, and worships Me, that person is dear to me.
- Srimad Bhagavad Gita
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