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So let us look for beauty and grace, for love and friendship, for that which is creative and birth-giving and soul-stretching. Let us dare to laugh at ourselves, healthy, affirmative laughter. Only when we take ourselves lightly can we take ourselves seriously, so that we are given the courage to say, “Yes! I dare disturb the universe.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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L'Engle, Madeleine - Speech (1983-11-16), "Dare To Be Creative," Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC | WIST Quotations

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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps that’s what we all had to do — think out for ourselves what we could believe and how we could live by it. And so I came to the conclusion that you had to use this life to develop the very best that you could develop.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Essay (1951-12), “This I Believe: Growth that Starts from Thinking,” on Edward R. Murrow, This I Believe, CBS Radio

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Roosevelt, Eleanor - Essay (1951-12), "This I Believe: Growth that Starts from Thinking," on Edward R. Murrow, This I Believe, CBS Radio | WIST Quotations

Perhaps that’s what we all had to do -- think out for ourselves what we could believe and how we could live by it. And so I came to the conclusion that you had to use this life to develop the very best that you could develop. (Source (Audio); start…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 11, 2025

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

Perfect valour is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.

[La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoins ce qu’on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶216 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

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Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶216 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)] - La Rochefoucauld, Francois | WIST Quotations

Perfect valour is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. [La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoins ce qu'on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde.] (Appeared in the 1st (1665) ed. as the similar: [La pure valeur, s’il y en avoit,…

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WIST Quotations moves again!Dec 10, 2024

A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:

«
Half myself mocks the other half.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/22669/

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