"There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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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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"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Lin Yu-tang on mind
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"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

Hepburn, Katharine on marriage
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"Only Christ could have conceived Christ."

Parker, Joseph on jesus christ
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

Penn, William on right and rightness
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"You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones."

Anderson, Greg on emotions
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"We live in deeds

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God.
The dead have all the glory of the world."

Bailey, Philip James on achievement
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"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."

Baudrillard, Jean on change
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"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."

Bunuel, Luis on imagination
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"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."

Mencken, H. L. on originality   

"The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them."

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"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

Horace on anger
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"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."

Chomsky, Noam on freedom
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

Shaw, George Bernard on lies and lying
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

Jowett, Benjamin on achievement
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"Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

Dement, William on dream
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"When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match. "

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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on ability
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier."

Landor, Walter Savage on happiness
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on mistakes
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"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."

Marston, Ralph on reality
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"Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

Einstein, Albert on gratitude
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"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Koestler, Arthur on illusion
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh."

Twain, Mark on happiness
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"Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers."

Bonnell, John S. on happiness
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"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Beattie, Melody on gratitude
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch on achievement
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"You can do anything if you put your mind to it... and you will succeed when you put your heart into it."

Kessler, Daniella on
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"Learn to understand that which you hate and fear, then the fear will fade and hatred will cease."

Kessler, Daniella on hatred
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"We are usually the best men when in the worst health."

Proverb, English on health
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