You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an
open one.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an
open one.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure read more

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with
a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring
all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a
faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping
and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends
far more on the way we meet read more

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends
far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those
events themselvers.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly
do."
N.B. This quotation is a read more

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly
do."
N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.