While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

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I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. . . . In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

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Everything is hard before it is easy.

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An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.

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