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«Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.»

«Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house»

«Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.»

«Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.»

«Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want»

«March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.»

«Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road»

«It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at»

«Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.»

«Sticks an' stones, love. I've saved your life an' you've saved mine. We're square.»