Burning Hope• Show poetry

“When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.”
— Max Lerner

“Freedom means choosing your burden.”
— Hephzibah Menuhin

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." — Benjamin Disraeli

"Courage is being scared to death — and saddling up anyway."
— John Wayne


"The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground."
— Unknown
"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do."
— Bruce Crampton


"All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble."
— William S. Halse

"To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice."
— Confucius

"It is better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees."
— Albert Camus

“What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.”
— Unknown

"What worries you, masters you."
— Haddon W. Robinson

“Necessity makes even the timid brave.”
— Sallust

"False hope is worse than despair."
— Jonathan Kozol

“Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.”
— Ogden Nash

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."
— Dennis Wholey

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
— Unknown


“They who live have all things; they who withhold have nothing.”
— Hindu proverb

"Men are not punished for their sins, but by them."
— Elbert Hubbard

“Men live by forgetting. Women live on memories."
— T.S. Eliot

"If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it."
— Terry Josephson


"We cannot learn without pain."
— Aristotle


"You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop."
— Eva Jessye


"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."
— Voltaire

“Fall seven times. Stand up eight.”
— Japanese proverb

"What does not destroy makes me stronger."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
— Oliver Goldsmith

“One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.”
— Marshal Foch

“It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns.”
— Unknown


“People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.”
— Unknown

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart."
— Alexandr Solzhenitzyn


"The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible."
— Arthur C. Clarke


"Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities."
— Terry Josephson


"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way."
— Carl Sandburg

"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
— John Ruskin

"He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more."
— Boiste


"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
— Francis Bacon

"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."
— Cato the Elder


“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
— Chinese proverb

"The world is small. You have one love, one home, one road, and one life."
-UnKnown

"Good presides because Evil does. Without one or the other, everyone would have nothing."
-Unknown
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