"Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light."

Unknown, Source on Temper
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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph on Youth
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"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."

Colby, Frank Moore on Temper
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on Love
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on Action
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on Adversity
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on Love
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Hope
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on Hope
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on Hope
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"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Carnegie, Dale on Fear
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"To the sick, while there is life there is hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Hope
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on Hope
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"The person who lives by hope will die by despair."

Proverb, Italian on Despair
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"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."

Lincoln, Abraham on Freedom
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"Abandon all hope, you who enter here!"

Dante Alighieri on Hell
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on Hope
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"Hope is the dream of a waking man."

Aristotle on Hope
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"I hope I never get so old I get religious."

Bergman, Ingmar on Age and Aging
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"Were it not for hope the heart would break."

Proverb, Scottish on Hope
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"If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all."

Jong, Erica on Autonomy
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"Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment"

Unknown, Source on Acceptance
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"We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature."

Wylie, Ida R. on Acceptance
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"I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap."

Allen, Fred A. on Ancestry
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"People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him."

Bailey, Pearl on God
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

Rougamont, Denis De on Acceptance
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on Acceptance
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"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

Lynes, Russell on Acceptance
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Francis, Brendan on Acceptance
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"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."

Einstein, Albert on Acceptance
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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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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on Achievement
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"The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think."

Unknown, Source on Beauty
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"Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us."

Brooks, Van Wyck on Ancestry
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"Heredity is nothing, but stored environment."

Burbank, Luther on Ancestry
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"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language."

Oates, Joyce Carol on Ancestry
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"We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better."

Americans, Native on Animals
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"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats."

Allen, Woody on Animals
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"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."

Addison, Joseph on Animals
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