"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first."

Bailey, Pearl on change
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"There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it."

Bailey, Pearl on past
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"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives."

Bach, Richard on regret
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"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

Bach, Richard on travel   

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

Bach, Richard on belief
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"The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities."

Bach, Richard on responsibility
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"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... .this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."

Bach, Richard on potential
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"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."

Bailey, Pearl on talent
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"You never find yourself until you face the truth."

Bailey, Pearl on truth
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"A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing."

Bailey, Pearl on worth   

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

Baldwin, James on children
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"People can cry much easier than they can change."

Baldwin, James on change
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"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."

Baldwin, James on institutions   

"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."

Baldwin, James on innocence
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"The future is... black."

Baldwin, James on the future
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"A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled."

Baldwin, James on education
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours."

Baldwin, James on desire
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"How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't."

Bach, Richard on mission   

"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

Adams, Douglas on
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"Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Adams, Douglas on atheism
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Adams, Douglas on airplane and aviation
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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Adams, Henry Brooks on words
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"A friend in power is a friend lost."

Adams, Henry Brooks on power
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"Only your mind can produce fear."

A Course In Miracles on fear
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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

Adams, John on education
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"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

Adams, John on mind
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"I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. "

Adams, John on uncategorised
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"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Bach, Richard on farewells
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"Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof."

Bach, Richard on family
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"In order to win, you must expect to win."

Bach, Richard on expectation
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"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."

Bach, Richard on joy
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