The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves – Henry Ward Beecher
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Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalms 16 11
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Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest – Henri Frederic Amiel
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood’s complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we’d say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction) – Edmund White
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Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way!
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The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others – Erik Erikson
