"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man."

Gibran, Kahlil on money
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"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Gibran, Kahlil on generosity
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"Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory."

Faber, Frederick W. on temptation   

"Live not in yesterdays, Look back and you may sorrow. Live precisely for today, Look forward to tomorrow."

Hulsgen, J.J. on present
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"The only people who never fail are those who never try."

Chase, Ilka on failure
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"You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on books - reading
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"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets."

Korda, Michael on failure
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"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on happiness
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"The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself."

Carlyle, Thomas on doubt
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"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

Laird, Donald on motivation
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"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."

Carlyle, Thomas on motivation
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"Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others."

Carlyle, Thomas on potential
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"There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button."

Chopin, Daniel on marriage   

"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves."

Collier, Robert on environment
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"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."

Riley, Pat on losers and losing
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"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."

Welles, Orson on politics   

"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway."

Beamon, Bob on excellence   

"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Never give advice unless asked."

Proverb, German on advice
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"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."

Wooden, John on planning
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"To fail to love is not to exist at all."

Doren, Mark Van on love
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"LET THAT PERSON GO WHOM YOU LOVE IF NEEDED ... BUT DON'T LET THAT PERSON GO WHO LOVES YOU.."

jaswinder on
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"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."

Lao-Tzu on action
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"Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age."

Paul, Elliot on patience
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"Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance."

Hubbard, Elbert on dignity
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"There is no original truth, only original error."

Bachelard, Gaston on mistakes
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"What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair."

Thompson, Roy on heroes and heroism
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"It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest."

Douglas, Norman on lies and lying
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"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."

Blake, William on possibilities
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"Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Pope, Alexander on merit
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"The only cure for grief is action."

Lewis, George Henry on grief   

"The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on responsibility   

"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."

Dyer, Wayne on present
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"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

Leacock, Stephen B. on advertising
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"Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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