Growth is the only evidence of life.

—John Henry Newman

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John Henry Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English Catholic theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet. He was an important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.

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In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

—Douglas William Jerrold

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Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in a personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

—James Baldwin

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From the rise, he looks out over his place. This is it. This is all there is in the world—it contains everything there is to know or possess, yet everywhere people are knocking their brains out trying to find something different, something better. His kids all scattered, looking for it. Everyone always wants a way out of something like this, but what he has here is the main thing there is—just the way things grow and die, the way the sun comes up and goes down every day. These are the facts of life. They are so simple, they are almost impossible to grasp.

—Bobbie Ann Mason

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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

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People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.

—Ethel Person

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