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 In Chinese, the word for crisis is weiji, composed of the character wei, which means danger, and ji, which means opportunity. - Jan Wong  And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. Contentment is worth more than riches. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong. America is a willingness of the heart. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Men become old, but they never become good. I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account. They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. I lived in Miami for a while, in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead. It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao-Tzu The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. The game isn't over until it's over. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. 
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