"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

Brookner, Anita on friends and friendship
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."

Boom, Corrie Ten on worry
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles on hope
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing."

Stopes, Marie Carmichael on beauty
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"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows."

Rodman, Frances on courage
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"It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun."

Conrad, Joseph on people   

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"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."

Bukowski, Charles on friends and friendship
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"Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men."

Reik, Theodor on women
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"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith."

Carlyle, Thomas on love
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"When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master."

Bridges, Robert on love
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"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

Confucius on love
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them."

Carroll, Pat on love
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"It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion."

Catullus on love
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"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it."

Cervantes, Miguel De on love
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"Love is a friendship set to music."

Cossman, E. Joseph on love
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"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."

Crisp, Quentin on love
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"If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual."

Davies, Robertson on love
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"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."

Davies, Robertson on truth
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"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."

Berger, John on criticism   

"Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance."

I Ching on advice   

"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself."

Shaw, George Bernard on growth
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"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."

Day, Clarence on enthusiasm   

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

Dumas, Alexandre on happiness
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"Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow."

Proverb, Spanish on procrastination   

"Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them."

Qur'an on women   

"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal."

Ferguson, Marilyn on change
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"Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on goals
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"Patience is counting down without blasting off"

Unknown, Source on patience   

"Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off."

Proverb, English on children   

"To fight fear, act. To increase fear -- wait, put off postpone."

Schwartz, David J. on obstacles
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"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."

Gracian, Baltasar on love   

"What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct."

Ovid on reason   

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

Keller, Helen on desire   

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"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."

Hoffer, Eric on passion
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"It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love."

Proverb, Jewish on love