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Rise Strong XI

Quotes by Joseph Heller, Henry David Thoreau, Khalil Gibran, Wayne Dyer, & John Mayer

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Nov 10, 2025
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“Rise above principle and do what’s right.”

— Joseph Heller —

“A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought, nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.”

— Henry David Thoreau —

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