"the loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired"

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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Hughes, Langston on dream
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Coolidge, Calvin on perseverance
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"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!"

DeVos, Richard M. on perseverance
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"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."

Browne, Sir Thomas on reason
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus on affirmation
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"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."

Wilson, Earl on problems
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"It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Nin, Anais on courage
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"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked"

Nin, Anais on joy
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"Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods. "

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Mead, Margaret on work
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"Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor."

Quarles, Francis on flattery   

"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it."

Gracian, Baltasar on evil   

"A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."

Allen, Woody on relationship
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."

Thatcher, Margaret on patience   

"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Thatcher, Margaret on power
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"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."

Thatcher, Margaret on consensus
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"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

Horace on anger
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"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."

Marx, Groucho on vision
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"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned."

Chesnutt, Charles W. on impossibility
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."

Durant, William J. on country
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"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger
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"Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness."

Goldsmith, Sir James on tolerance
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

Ovid on fate
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"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"

Fromm, Erich on possessions
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"Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on mistakes
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"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell."

Kingsley, Charles on feelings
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"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."

Marston, Ralph on reality
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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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"It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts."

Levant, Oscar on regret
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"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Francis of Assisi, St. on dream
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"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

Phillpotts, Eden on abundance
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"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

Zinn, Jon Kabat on learning
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"Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret."

Lucado, Max L. on regret
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much. "

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