"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on wisdom
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"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

Conrad, Joseph on evil
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"Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad."

Conrad, Joseph on loneliness
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais on love
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"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"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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"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."

Kundera, Milan on the future
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"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."

James, P. D. on effort
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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on motivation
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

Nouwen, Henri on honesty
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do."

Carnegie, Dale on fools and foolishness
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"A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart."

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) on art
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved."

Antonius, Marcus on anger
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"Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on heaven
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"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both."

Edwards, Tryon on compromise
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"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on perseverance   

"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties   

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."

Peale, Norman Vincent on problems
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"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Alito, Noelie on action
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"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love."

Buechner, Frederick on life
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"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on reality
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"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. "

Christie, Agatha on age and aging   

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."

Bagnold, Enid on fathers
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"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults."

Vries, Peter De on marriage
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