We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
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There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
-Ernest Hemingway
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?
-William Arthur Ward
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
-Richard Dawkins
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
-Henry David Thoreau
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
-Anne Sexton
