Patience and Perseverance

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Great Things Are Not Easy

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Life is like a Violin

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Punishment

The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless."

Live Forward

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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Otherwise

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Live Life, Enjoy

life isn’t an adventure that should be taken fast.
take it slow live your life, enjoy the days you have because you never know when your days will be numbered.

Don't let it get the best of you

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Do What You Want

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Forget yesterday, live for today, tomorrow will take care of its self.

Miserable

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

A Better You

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Merry-Go-Round

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

You Are Unique

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Experience and Mistakes

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Life is Good

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Enjoy Life

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.

Search Within

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

Generations

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Experience, Wisdom

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.