Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they ca

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Swans sing before they die – twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. – Napoleon Hill

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Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”

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I dont think Ill ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. Its not in my nature. – Ricky Williams

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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I didnt know this about myself, but when Pirates of the Caribbean came out I realised that I didnt enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didnt react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead. – Keira Knightley

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