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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion."

Rogers, Will on opinions
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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

Rogers, Will on action
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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

Asimov, Isaac on science
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

Cass, Lewis on action
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

Eliot, George on life
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"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."

Asimov, Isaac on science
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."

Mann, Golo on achievement
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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Asimov, Isaac on self-improvement
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"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."

Pasteur, Louis on preparation
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"Fortune favors the prepared mind."

Pasteur, Louis on fortune
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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

Asimov, Isaac on books - reading
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."

Kuralt, Charles on achievement
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

Mcclellan, Foster C. on achievement
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"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Bible on love
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"We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs."

Keble, John on angels
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"Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking."

Colton, Charles Caleb on angels
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"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2]"

Bible on angels
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others."

Twain, Mark on genius
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"remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm and look to the future with confidence."

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"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on appreciation
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"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

Halas, George on regret
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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster."

Asimov, Isaac on writers and writing
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"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

Bach, Richard on writers and writing
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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

Baldwin, James on writers and writing
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most."

Unknown, Source on kindness    Share

"Be the kind of person you would like to be with."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible"

Nabakov, Vladimir on words, language
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