1998
After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
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