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“Boredom: the desire for desires.”
Leo Tolstoy

“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”
Bruce Lee

“Clearly, if leaders have a strong set of ethical values and live them out, then people will respect them, not just their position. Immature leaders try to use their position to drive high performance.”
John C. Maxwell

“You are now old enough to know how very important to your future life will be the manner in which you employ your present time”
Thomas Jefferson

“Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself that you’ve done all you could, and until you’ve stopped loving the woman you’ve chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you’ll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you’re old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that’s good and lofty in you will be lost.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.”
Albert Einstein

“But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.”
C.S. Lewis

“Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.”
Albert Einstein

“Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy”
Leo Tolstoy

“All around the Lady Jessica—piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces—stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases—some partly unpacked.”
Frank Herbert

“Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.”
C.S. Lewis

“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
C.S. Lewis

“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.”
Joyce Meyer

“Those who work for money alone, and who receive for their pay nothing but money, are always underpaid, no matter how much they receive. Money is necessary, but the big prizes of life cannot be measured in dollars and cents. No” 
Napoleon Hill

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