"In this life he laughs longest who laughs last."

-- John Masefield

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“We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.”
“Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.”
“You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.”
“After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everythingâ€™s changedâ€¦.thereâ€™s a hole. Itâ€™s person-shaped and it follows you everywhereâ€¦. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. Weâ€™d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.”
“Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly.”
“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics donâ€™t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying â€œyesâ€ begins things. Saying â€œyesâ€ is how things grow. Saying â€œyesâ€ leads to knowledge. â€œYesâ€ is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say â€œyes'.”

Source : Knox College Commencement Address, departments.knox.edu. June 03, 2006.
“The United States is a country where everybody can start again.”
“On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.”

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