"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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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Francis, Brendan on acceptance
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"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on courage
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

James, William on attitude
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

Franklin, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on youth
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"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

A Course In Miracles on peace
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price..."

Tagore, Rabindranath on freedom
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"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."

Twain, Mark on happiness
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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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"What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it."

Twain, Mark on growth
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark on gratitude
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

Twain, Mark on health
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"The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

Twain, Mark on health
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"History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal."

Twain, Mark on history and historians
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"Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it."

Twain, Mark on honesty
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"If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance."

Twain, Mark on humankind
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"The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously."

Twain, Mark on humankind   

"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."

Aurelius, Marcus on peace
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"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."

Amis, Martin on peace
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"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

Bayly, Thomas Haynes on absence
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"Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood."

Ashley, Elizabeth on absence
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"Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love."

Proverb on absence
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"The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."

Ouida on absence
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on absence
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"It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the hurt stays in the heart."

Higginson, Ella on insensitivity
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"By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof."

Proverb, French on correction
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"Kindness and hard work will take you further than intelligence. "

Bana, Mervyn on
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on absence
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"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on absence
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"Life is a dream walking death is a going home."

Proverb, Chinese on death
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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph on youth
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"The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain."

Proverb, Chinese on age and aging
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"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice."

Proverb, Chinese on advice
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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

Proverb, Chinese on adversity
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