Words worth keeping

The quote collection.

Reminders for brave starts, creative days, and the moments when you need a little push.

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“The biggest, most dramatic change happens incrementally, little by little, through compromises and adjustments over years and decades.”

“We cannot sit back and hope that everything works out for the best. We cannot afford to be tired or frustrated or cynical.”

“Despair is a sin. I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are.”

“Perhaps the turning point in one’s life is realizing that to be treated like a victim is not necessarily to become one.”

“I think that mankind can do better than that, and I wish to be a witness to this small and stubborn possibility.”

“Close up, the person’s imperfections matter, but from far away, you see your own.”

“You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.”

“When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.”

“To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.”

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”