We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
It is impossible to control creation.
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Life will fulfill your expectations.
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