"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

Digest, Readers on friends and friendship
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common."

Carter, Angela on feminism   

"For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands."

Rossetti, Christina on family
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"Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done."

Coffin, R.P.T. on universe
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"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

Tolkien, J. R. on farewells
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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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"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."

Shakespeare, William on wisdom   

"Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored."

Sanders, George on bores and boredom
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"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other."

Truth, Sojourner on humankind
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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

Schweitzer, Albert on success
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"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on success
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"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard -- reaching for the highest that is in us -- becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

Ziglar, Zig on success
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"Successful people are simply those with success habits."

Tracy, Brian on habit   

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on fear   

"Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever."

James, William on heroes and heroism   

"The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on heroes and heroism
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"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce."

Williamson, Marianne on ideas   

"Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us."

Williamson, Marianne on love
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"I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us"

Williamson, Marianne on love
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"The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world."

Williamson, Marianne on success   

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Williamson, Marianne on fear
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"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear."

Bible on love
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"What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works."

Delacroix, Eugene on loneliness
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"I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict."

Delacroix, Eugene on body
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back."

Henley, Don on hope
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"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on enthusiasm
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."

Gogh, Vincent Van on slavery
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"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."

Gide, Andre on literature
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"There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration."

Cicero, Marcus T. on inspiration   

"Only poetry inspires poetry."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on poetry and poets
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"The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on heroes and heroism
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