"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."

Bennett, William John on happiness
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"To be happy we must not be too concerned with others."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."

Camus, Albert on absurdity
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"Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face."

Camus, Albert on faces
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

Camus, Albert on life
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"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Life begins on the other side of despair."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on despair
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."

Anster, John on action
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

Berger, Sally on action
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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on action
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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

Bronowski, Jacob on action
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"Let us do or die."

Burns, Robert on action
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"Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be."

Byrhhe, Anne on action
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"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

Cass, Lewis on action
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"I never worry about action, but only inaction."

Churchill, Winston on action
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"The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day."

Mckain, Robert J. on action
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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Nin, Anais on action
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"The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny."

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph on action   

"So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin."

Stone, W. Clement on action
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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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"None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen."

Unknown, Source on action
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"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."

Aristotle on courage
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"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements."

Mailer, Norman on pornography   

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Nin, Anais on courage
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"The less routine the more life."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on life
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time."

Barrymore, John on life
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"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it."

Basset, Lucinda on life
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"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life   

"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist."

Camara, Dom H. on poverty and the poor
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."

Franklin, Benjamin on poverty and the poor
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

Keller, Helen on suffering
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"What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suffering
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"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full."

Proust, Marcel on suffering
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"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."

Russell, Bertrand on capitalism   

"Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest."

Benjamin, Walter on life
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