"Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people."

-- Alain de Botton

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“The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.”
“The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.”

Source : Letter to Sophie Germain, April 30, 1807.
“If we mistake God's silence for indifference, we are the most miserable of people. If we give up when we no longer understand, we reject His caring, steadfast love and cut ourselves off from our only real hope.”

Source : Sheila Walsh (1999). “Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times”, p.1938, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.”
“But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.”
“There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.”
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
“There's more than one way for a girl to Google a cat.”

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