In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide (1869–1951) - French Writer

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I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. 

- Edward Everett Hale

Famous Quotes

When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge… of our lives, of our future, of our dreams.

- John-Roger and Peter McWilliams

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We’re not here to lose our sense of humor.
- Richie Berlin

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model,
and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree,
which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides,
according to the tendency of the inward forces which
make it a living thing.

John Stuart Mill

We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death!
 - Ausone De Chancel (Lines in an Album)

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
 - Alfieri (Orestes)

“I think, therefore I am”

- Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
                                                                     
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
- Marquis de Sade

Famous Quotes

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities, and to make the most of one’s resources.
- Vauvenargues