No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work – Jonathan Sack

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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work ― Thomas Edison

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Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

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As the psychologist Daniel Gilbert observed, disbelieving is hard work, and System 2 is easily tired. ― Daniel Kahneman

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The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God. _ Blaise Pascal

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No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

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God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing. ― C.S. Lewis

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I talk to God but the sky is empty.

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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