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"Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still."

Faber, Frederick W. on thoughts and thinking
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"After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others."

Wharton, Edith on criticism    Share

"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."

Gracian, Baltasar on gratitude
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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"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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"The person who lives by hope will die by despair."

Proverb, Italian on despair
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars."

Clough, Arthur Hugh on fear    Share

"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on hope
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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Fuller, Thomas on hope
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"Where no hope is left, is left no fear."

Milton, John on hope
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"Were it not for hope the heart would break."

Proverb, Scottish on hope
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"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

Russell, Bertrand on hope
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"There is not grief that does not speak."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on grief
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"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

Wilde, Oscar on blame
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"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."

Brookner, Anita on confession
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"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others."

Shula, Don on responsibility
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"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."

Alexander, Shana on excellence
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"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward."

Glasgow, Ellen on change
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"Evil spelled backward is live."

Unknown, Source on evil
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"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."

Frost, Robert on failure
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"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."

Barber, Margaret Fairless on nostalgia
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"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."

Kierkegaard, Søren on depression
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"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

May, Rollo on despair
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."

Camus, Albert on futility
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"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

Cowley, Abraham on hope
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"Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love."

Gibran, Kahlil on futility
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"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."

Sidney, Sir Philip on resolution
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"Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources."

Trogdon, William on night
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"Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us."

Wordsworth, William on perseverance
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"A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market."

Lamb, Charles on laughter    Share

"Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it."

Gide, Andre on truth
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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."

Boulanger, Nadia on life
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"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless."

Sayers, Dorothy L. on passion    Share

"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."

South, Bishop Robert on passion
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