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Inspirational Quotes - Page 279

Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

Joel Osteen (2014). “Daily Readings from Break Out!: 365 Devotions to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life”, p.439, Hachette UK

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You cannot step into the same river twice.

Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.97, Penguin

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.

Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 5, 2004.

Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.

Council on Foreign Relations, Corporate Conference, www.cfr.org. March 7, 2013.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy (1964). “Complete works: The first complete and authorised English translation”

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.289, Biblo & Tannen Publishers