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• Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420
  
  
• What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
  
  
• Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
  
  
• Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
  
  
• See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII
  
  
• Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
  
• Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. ~Turkish Proverb
  
  
• Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair