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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
CS Lewis
CS Lewis
January 8, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
CS Lewis
CS Lewis
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Saint Teresa of Avila
January 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Saint Teresa of Avila
Culture yourself like a flower. Pull out weeds.
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
January 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Culture yourself like a flower. Pull out weeds.
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
I know the price of success: Dedication, hard work and an unrelenting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
January 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM
I know the price of success: Dedication, hard work and an unrelenting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
The flesh gets numb but the soul doesn’t.
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
January 4, 2026 at 6:48 PM
The flesh gets numb but the soul doesn’t.
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow so I decide that no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip an hour more of sleep and live.
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
January 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow so I decide that no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip an hour more of sleep and live.
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
January 2, 2026 at 7:05 PM
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
Effort only releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill
January 1, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Effort only releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate
James Agate
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate
James Agate
I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert
December 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
Jack Gilbert
Jack Gilbert
There is nothing as sweet as a comeback when you are down and out, about to lose and out of time.
Annie Lamont
Annie Lamont
December 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There is nothing as sweet as a comeback when you are down and out, about to lose and out of time.
Annie Lamont
Annie Lamont
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
December 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
December 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare