"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Adams, Douglas on trying
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"When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."

Aragon, Louis on opposites   

"Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living."

Ginott, Haim on happiness
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"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on failure
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

Kerr, Jean on adversity
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"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."

Horace on fools and foolishness
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

Schweitzer, Albert on service
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"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so."

Irion, Mary Jean on potential
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"You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul."

Lespinasse, Julie De on hatred
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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on passion
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

Epictetus on adversity
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"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

Epictetus on patience   

"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope."

Epictetus on life
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"The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."

O'Casey, Sean on practice
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"Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together."

Arendt, Hannah on family
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"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown."

Shinn, George on growth
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Heinlein, Robert on love
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"In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip."

Readon, Daniel on pessimism
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"Love is a friendship set to music."

Cossman, E. Joseph on love
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"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

Rumi, Jalal ad-Din on love
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"There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on worry   

"The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show."

Unknown, Source on the future   

"Necessity never made a good bargain."

Franklin, Benjamin on necessity
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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Hammarskjold, Dag on purpose
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"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."

Michelangelo on beauty
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"Do anything, even the impossible; it may only take a little longer when a miracle is required."

Unknown, Source on miracles
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"The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed."

Thoreau, Henry David on mediocrity
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"You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully."

Robbins, Anthony on choice
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on hope
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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

Gingrich, Newt on perseverance
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

Russell, Bertrand on doubt
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"You REAP what You SOW: Life is like a boomerang. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy."

Bright, Grant M. on results
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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know."

Conrad, Joseph on work   

"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."

Conrad, Joseph on crafts   

"When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all."

Barton, Bruce on universe
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"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."

Barton, Bruce on freedom   

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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