"The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels."

Mcdowell, Mary on men   

"As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."

Montgomery, Lucy Maud on adaptability
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"But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself."

Hoban, Russell on smoking
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"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."

Carlyle, Thomas on despair
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"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."

Bronte, Charlotte on feelings
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"Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished."

Gray, John on women
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"Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings."

West, Mae on women
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"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves."

Trotsky, Leon on character
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"No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment."

Carlyle, Thomas on quality
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"I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast."

Ashford, Evelyn on exercise   

"If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions."

Mandino, Og on emotions
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"Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."

Post, Laurens Van du on adversity
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"Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on appearance
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"Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths."

Eliot, George on sympathy   

"But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."

Eliot, George on love   

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Camus, Albert on potential
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"There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us."

Gutzkow on art   

"Love is a better teacher than duty."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."

Einstein, Albert on relativity
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"The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another."

Eliot, George on duty   

"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."

Szasz, Thomas on duty   

"An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten."

Rourke, Constance on humor
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"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

Dickens, Charles on emotions
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"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on imagination
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"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."

Eliot, George on pain
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"A short retirement urges a sweet return."

Milton, John on retirement
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

Allen, George on perseverance
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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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"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."

Angelou, Maya on character
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"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."

Churchill, Winston on simplicity
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"While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple."

Grumet, Gerald W. on fools and foolishness   

"I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."

Clay, Henry on courtesy   

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

Einstein, Albert on creativity
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"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."

Aldiss, Brian on creativity
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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

Cook, Mary Lou on creativity
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"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."

Eliot, George on friends and friendship
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"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

Thoreau, Henry David on friends and friendship
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"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses."

Storey, David on friends and friendship
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