"What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God."

Buscaglia, Leo on gifts
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"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."

Franklin, Benjamin on want
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on impossibility
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"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

Hesburgh, Theodore M. on fathers
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"Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman."

Hilton, Conrad on enthusiasm
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"Good is not good, when better is expected."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation
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"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."

Auden, W. H. on patience
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"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

Motto on losers and losing
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"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

Frost, Robert on losers and losing
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it."

Ogilvy, David on advertising
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"Every cloud has a silver lining."

Proverb on deception
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"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on appreciation
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"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow."

Gabirol, Ibn on death
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

Herschel, Sir John on respectability
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"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time."

Hubbard, Elbert on genius
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"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

Gladden, W. on words
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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."

Proverb, Sicilian on friends and friendship
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"The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal."

Menander of Athens on goals   

"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it."

Friedsam, Michael on goals
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"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."

Ball, Lucille on effort
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"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."

Joineriana on books - reading
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"The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves."

Proverb on soul
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"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on women   

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on worry
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"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool."

Hugo, Victor on flirting
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"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."

Buchwald, Art on protest
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"If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on perseverance   

"Marriage is the death of hope."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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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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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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