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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

- William Faulkner | Adversity Quotes

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

- William Faulkner | Creation and Creativity Quotes

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

- William Faulkner | Homo Sapiens Quotes

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.

- William Faulkner | Patriotism and Nationalism Quotes

The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

- William Faulkner | Women Quotes

One of the saddest things is, the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day, nor make love for 8 hours.

- William Faulkner | Work Quotes

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

- William Faulkner | Simplicity Quotes

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

- William Faulkner | One Day Quotes

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

- William Faulkner | The Past Quotes

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

- William Faulkner | Right Quotes

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

- William Faulkner | Fear Quotes

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.

- William Faulkner | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

- William Faulkner | Courage Quotes

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

- William Faulkner | Perfection Quotes

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

- William Faulkner | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

- William Faulkner | Man Quotes