"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on duty
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."

Franklin, Benjamin on faith
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone."

Eliot, T. S. on hell
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"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them."

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"In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."

Eliot, T. S. on indecision
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"Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it."

Eliot, T. S. on past
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"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

Eliot, T. S. on pride
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

Eliot, T. S. on risk
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"In my beginning is my end."

Eliot, T. S. on beginning
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"A tradition without intelligence is not worth having."

Eliot, T. S. on tradition
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"Desire creates the power."

Holliwell, Raymond on desire
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"The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action."

Holliwell, Raymond on motivation
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"Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light."

Holliwell, Raymond on attitude
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"No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it."

Holliwell, Raymond on price
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"Are we controlled by our thoughts, or are we controlling our thoughts?"

Holliwell, Raymond on control
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"Please all, and you will please none."

Aesop on approval
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"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance."

Aesop on mind
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"Slow and steady wins the race."

Aesop on patience
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"Wealth unused might as well not exist."

Aesop on wealth
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"It is easy to be brave when far away from danger."

Aesop on risk
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"We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted."

Aesop on wish and wishing
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"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."

Aesop on adventure
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"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

Aesop on anger
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"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors."

Alcott, Louisa May on education
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

Alcott, Louisa May on anger
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"What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"

Alcott, Louisa May on mothers
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"Follow your bliss."

Campbell, Joseph on dream
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"Appearances are deceptive."

Aesop on appearance
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on kindness
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"A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone."

Aesop on family
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"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive."

Campbell, Joseph on life
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"If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."

Campbell, Joseph on passion
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"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought."

Baruch, Bernard M. on planning