"We never know how high we are
Till we are asked to rise
And then if we are true to plan
Our statures touch the skies?
                            - Emily Dickinson -

"Our doubts are traitors
and make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
                            - William Shakespeare -

"For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks -- not that you won or lost,
but how you played the game."
                            - Grantland Rice -

"Dare to dream - Dare to try - Dare to fail - Dare to succeed" (Kinsley Ward)

"It is not our abilities that determine who we are. It is our choices" (Dumbledore).

"Dark and difficult times lie ahead, Harry. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right... and what is easy" (Dumbledore)

"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" (Zen Buddhism)

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward" (Kurt Vonnegut).

"If you want to feel how it's like to be rich, examine everything you have that can't be traded for money."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands in moments of challenge and controversy" (Martin Luther King).

"Chance favors the prepared mind" ( Pasteur ).

"Perhaps the true mark of a leader is that whether he/she is willing to stand alone" (Atticus in To Kill A Mockingbird).

"The only thing to fear is fear itself" (Franklin D. Roosevelt).

"Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself" (Dumbledore in Harry Potter).

"Truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution" (Dumbledore).

"L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux" (Le Petit Prince).

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