6

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

michelleami:
oh yes...
8

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

8

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Lao Tzu

6

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

7

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

5

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

8

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

jacinto2:
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7

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal

6

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

MARK TWAIN

7

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Robin Williams