Chorus : Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean Paul Sartre

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Nicole Kidman

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Michel de Montaigne

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

Rollo May

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander the Great

One of these days is none of these days.

Anonymous

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

Drew Bledsoe

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.

John Keats

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Nicholas Murray Butler

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Andrew Shue

The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools.

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