Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. — Walter Elliot

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Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ― Carl Sandburg

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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

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If you can't get a miracle, become one.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

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Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.

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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. - Gustave Courbet

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. — John Wooden

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