"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating."

Waitley, Denis on joy
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"All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on love
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"His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art
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"Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on honesty
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"Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength."

Ruskin, John on mountains   

"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on quotations   

"Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find."

His, Kuo on virtue   

"Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nature
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"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on endurance   

"A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation."

Russell, Bertrand on duty   

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on friends and friendship
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"Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content."

Lin Yu-tang on age and aging
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"The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the greatest challenge of all. His conditioning has been so powerful that it has all but destroyed his ability to be self-aware."

Goldberg, Herb on intuition   

"We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment."

Lozoff, Bo on grace
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"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on sacrifice
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on success
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"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness?"

Thackeray, William M. on perseverance
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"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers."

Unknown, Source on ability
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"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."

Byron, Lord on nature
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"One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time."

Wanamaker, John on action
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"Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life."

Lamb, Charles on friends and friendship   

"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on absence
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on friends and friendship
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"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance."

Benjamin, Walter on absence
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

Cocteau, Jean on adversity
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"Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist --only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression."

Cioran, E. M. on pessimism
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"The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do."

Barton, Bruce on belief
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"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."

Marlowe, Christopher on ambition   

"Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies toilet is invariably known as Lover's Lane."

Unknown, Source on romance and romanticism   

"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman."

Wilde, Oscar on romance and romanticism
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"The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before."

Unknown, Source on kisses and kissing   

"Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle."

Adams, Thomas on passion   

"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."

Browne, Sir Thomas on passion
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"You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed."

Irving, John on passion
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"Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer."

Jerome, Jerome K. on love
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"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."

Gillies, Jerry on self discovery
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"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on wonder
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"Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on nature   

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

Epictetus on belief
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"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on challenges
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