Kate Ann Collins

ON ACCEPTANCE:
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can't change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
-Anonymous

ON ADVERSITY:
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
-James Baldwin

ON CHARACTER:
"Every person has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."
-Alphonse Kan

ON HAPPINESS:
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
-Helen Keller

"For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstacy.
-Emily Dickinson

ON PERSISTENCE:
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
-John Calvin Coolidge


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