A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
They who wanted to do each other good are now handling one another in an imperious and intolerant manner, and in the struggle somehow to get out of their untenable and unbearable state of confusion, they commit the greatest fault that can happen to human relationships: they become impatient.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
~ Lao Tzu
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception it is a prevailing attitude.
~ Colin Powell
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Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
~ Lao Tzu
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Our difficulties and our dangers will not be removed by closing our eyes to them.
~ Winston Churchill
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absense of fear.
~ Mark Twain
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~ Lao Tzu
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With a brain in my head, and feet in my shoes, I can steer myself any direction I choose.
~ Dr. Seuss, in Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, (1990 book)
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
~ Lao Tzu
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It’s not who we are, but what we do that defines us.
~ Bruce Wayne, in Batman Begins, (2005 film)
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