Thoughts and Quotes of a Curious Mind

Calloused and bruised/ dazed and confused My Spirit is left wanting something more Than my selfish hopes/ and my selfish dreams I’m lying with my face down to the floor I’m crying out for more Give me Words to speak Don’t let my Spirit sleep Cause I can’t think of anything worth saying But I know that I owe You my life So give me Words to speak Don’t let my Spirit sleep Every night, every day/ I find that I have nothing left to say So I stand here in silence awaiting Your guidance I’m wanting only Your voice to be heard Let them be Your Words I just don’t understand this life that I’ve been living I just don’t understand these lies I’ve been believing I just don’t understand

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. College isn't the place to go for ideas. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed do...

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