Right then, with the shore so close, I understood that I would not do what I should do. I would not swim away from my hometown and my country and my life. I would not be brave.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10

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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Anthony Trollope

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

James Redfield

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Thomas A. Edison

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Christine Keeler

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

Davy Crockett

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Alexander Pope

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

Thomas Traherne