"Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on Hope
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"Once a person says, This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do, it is easier to decide how to spend one's time."

Viscott, David on Self-expression
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"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."

Brown, Les on Perseverance
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"I will go anywhere, provided it be forward."

Livingstone, David on Determination
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"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."

Ikeda, Daisaku on Impossibility
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."

Sun Tzu on Strategies
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"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."

Sun Tzu on Strategies
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"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

Barrie, Sir James M. on Joy
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"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."

Swift, Jonathan on Style
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"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."

Barzun, Jacques on Tragedies
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"Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were."

Bergman, George E. on Tact and Tactfulness
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"When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target."

Fisher, Geoffrey F. on Perfection
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"I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me."

Rooney, Mickey on Women
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on Motivation
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

Einstein, Albert on Science and Scientists
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"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

Macarthur, Douglas on Defeat
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"Success is 99 percent failure."

Honda, Soichiro on Failure
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"You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see."

Stern, Richard Martin on Past
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"You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way."

Kennedy, John F. on Assassination
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"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise."

Lover, Samuel on Circumstance
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"Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long."

Proverb, German on Flowers
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"The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved."

Lynes, Russell on Insults
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"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise."

Newman, James on Circumstance
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"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Sarcasm
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"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there."

Roshi, Yasutani on Illusion
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"The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge."

Camus, Albert on World
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"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."

Miller, Henry on Meaning of Life
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"Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others."

Brown, John Mason on Charm
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"The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty."

Lucientes, Francisco Jose De Goya Y on Fantasy
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"Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding."

Lao-Tzu on Meaning of Life
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"How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward."

Proverb on Rest
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"The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Martyrdom
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"Governments never learn. Only people learn."

Friedman, Milton on Government
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"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."

Welch, Robert on Government
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"Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war."

Massie, Allan on Army and Navy
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"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid."

Dewey, John on Luck
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"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."

Burr, Aaron on Procrastination
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"The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh."

Byron, Lord on Fantasy
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"It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die."

Hayakawa, S. I. on Self discovery
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"The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe."

Mencken, H. L. on Lies and Lying
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