Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
-- Voltaire




Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
-- Will Rogers




I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
-- Golda Meir






I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
-- Louisa May Alcott



happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
-- Martha Washington



If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
-- Margaret Fuller



If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford


It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw




Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
-- Julie Andrews


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Love is PATIENT, love is KIND, LOVE never fails / DB since 2001