"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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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Einstein, Albert on mistakes
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"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

Aurelius, Marcus on fulfillment
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"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

Aurelius, Marcus on evil
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

Gibran, Kahlil on kindness
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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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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on kindness
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"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

Joubert, Joseph on kindness
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"So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on kindness
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"The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

Wordsworth, William on kindness
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"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind."

Auden, W. H. on mind
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"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"

Gibran, Kahlil on freedom
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

Auden, W. H. on books - reading
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"Everyone is more or less mad on one point."

Kipling, Rudyard on insanity   

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on love
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on faith
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"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!"

Kipling, Rudyard on perseverance   

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Kipling, Rudyard on certainty
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"'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street."

Kipling, Rudyard on style   

"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves It's pretty, but is it Art?"

Kipling, Rudyard on art   

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Kipling, Rudyard on words
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on action
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"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on happiness
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"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."

Balzac, Honore De on exaggeration   

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

Dryden, John on contentment
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"To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all."

Rowland, Helen on compatibility
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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

Austen, Jane on marriage
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"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

Austen, Jane on misfortunes
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

Dumas, Alexandre on happiness
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"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

Waitley, Denis on happiness
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"Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late."

Coolidge, Rita on opportunity
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"The road to perseverance lies by doubt."

Quarles, Francis on doubt
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"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge
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"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

Mill, John Stuart on conservatives
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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