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These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#challenge #genius #heroism #intelligence #trial

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#satyagraha #life

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward. ↗

— Jamie Ford

#missing #past #present #wanting #life

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment; I told them they didn't understand life. ↗

— John Lennon

#happy #john #lennon #life #life

Never rearrange your life in order to meet Mr. Darcy half way. If he couldn’t see your worth at the moment you met then he won’t two years later. May the halls of Pemberly be filled with his regrets and your life filled with thankfulness because of this revelation. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#romance #self-worth #life

If you also thinks it means I wake up every morning wondering what I did to deserve having you back in my life, well, you'd be right about that too. ↗

— Julie James

#julie-james #romance #life

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#expectation #heaven #hell #life #life

Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope ↗

— David Archuleta

#hope #hopeful #life-lessons #life

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat? ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#life #live-in-the-moment #music #life

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#difficult #fight #greatest #life #lose