What wind is to fire
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
~ Comte de Bussy-Rabnutin
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Begin from inside
If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.
~ Jim Kwik
Great Minds
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
~ Washington Irving
Telling the Truth
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
A single step
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu