"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

Kingsolver, Barbara on hope
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"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

Saadi on patience
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

Blake, William on friends and friendship
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"Lovers alone wear sunlight"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on
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"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on courage
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted."

Burns, Robert on art
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"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

Shaw, George Bernard on art
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"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on income
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"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on knowledge
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"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on nature
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"All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]"

Bible on faith
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"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]"

Bible on faith
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"Only my condemnation injures me."

A Course In Miracles on control
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"Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward."

A Course In Miracles on perception
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"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."

Tracy, Brian on growth
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship
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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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"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."

Butterworth, Eric on desire
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man."

Lawrence, D. H. on horses   

"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."

Ovid on competition
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"For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail. "

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"Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little."

More, Hannah on love
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"The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am."

Bierstedt, Robert on imagination
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"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Croft, Roy on love
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"I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on self-control
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"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."

Lewis, Harvey Spencer on action
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"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."

Henley, William Ernest on freedom
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"She concedes that she's the one she pleases."

Carnes, Kim on fun   

"Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. [2 Corinthians 9:7]"

Bible on giving   

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on greatness
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on love
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