Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Lord Byron

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Daniel Defoe

The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.

Charles Dickens

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

Aristotle

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Catherine Deneuve

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

Roger Clemens

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Sir Walter Raleigh

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Gary Gulbranson

Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my mouth, my hands, in a way that made something inside me knot and unknot unbearably.I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.

Maggie Stiefvater

I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

Edith Wharton

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

John Mason Good