"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road."

Beecher, Henry Ward on humor
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"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."

Collier, Robert on adversity
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"I bring to my life a certain amount of mess."

Coppola, Francis Ford on adversity
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

Devito, Danny on adversity
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"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."

Ellington, Duke on adversity
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

Ford, Henry on adversity
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"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

Horton, Doug on adversity
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"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on adversity
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on adversity
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"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

Rohn, Jim on value
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"We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued."

La Bruyere, Jean De on self-esteem   

"Our value is the sum of our values."

Batten, Joe on self-esteem   

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

Aristotle on virtue
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"The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive."

Frost, Robert on lies and lying
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"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."

Butler, Samuel on lies and lying
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"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."

Butler, Samuel on lies and lying
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"People don't fail, they give up"

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Bronte, Emily on pride
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"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt."

Bolingbroke, Henry on pride   

"Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come."

Mandino, Og on mistakes
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"It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well."

Descartes, Rene on mind
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"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

Bono, Edward De on mind
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"You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press."

Buckley, Lord on mind
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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

Lessing, Doris on self-image   

"If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot."

Cioran, E. M. on self-image
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"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."

Buddha on self-esteem
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"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."

Dewar, Thomas Robert on mind
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"The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use."

Dorsey, George A. on mind
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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds."

Durant, William J. on mind
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"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life."

Arliss, George on humility
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"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows."

Nielsen, Helen on humility
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"If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself."

Pascal, Blaise on humility
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"A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity."

Ruckett on humility
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"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity."

Addison, Joseph on virtue   

"If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on virtue   

"There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved."

Sand, George on love
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on love
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"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Segal, Erich on love
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"Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence."

Seabury, David on love
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