"The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results."

Peale, Norman Vincent on thoughts and thinking
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"I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice."

Victoria, Queen on pregnancy   

"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."

Kerr, Jean on poverty and the poor
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"The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure."

Canetti, Elias on paranoia   

"A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large. "

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"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."

Connolly, Cyril on laziness
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"Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. The more one has to do, the more he is able to accomplish."

Buxton, Thomas on laziness   

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

Caplan, Mortimer on laziness
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"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

Renard, Jules on laziness
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"Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on laziness
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles 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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"Sometimes you have to do the work and hope the career materializes."

Lipsey, Michael on careers
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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

Unknown, Source on life
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on hope
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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason; and if any thing is to be hoped, every thing ought to be tried. "

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"Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you."

Ruckett on hope
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"The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on opportunity
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"Every chance taken is another chance to win."

Unknown, Source on chance   

"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."

Kettering, Charles F. on failure
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"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."

DeVos, Richard M. on dream
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"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

Camus, Albert on freedom
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"There is no such thing as no chance."

Ford, Henry on possibilities   

"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."

Pasteur, Louis on preparation
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"If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will."

Unknown, Source on belief   

"the choices we make and the chances we take, determine our destiny."

Unknown on destiny
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"How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for."

Terence on chance
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"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

Gandhi, Indira on tranquility   

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

Kundera, Milan on passion
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

Williams, Tennessee on suffering
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"I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret."

Robbins, Anthony on commitment
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"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."

Robbins, Anthony on life   

"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on comfort
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"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on life
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"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now."

Baez, Joan on life
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"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."

Baughan, Bill on life
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"Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands."

Better, Cathy on life
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

Daniels, Josephus on defeat
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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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