"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises."

Crisp, Quentin on involvement   

"The one who wills is the one who can."

Proverb on power
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"Man has will, but woman has her way."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on power   

"Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will."

Cousins, Norman on power
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"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."

Cousins, Norman on passion
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"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."

Hoffer, Eric on passion
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"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."

Casals, Pablo on passion
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

Kundera, Milan on passion
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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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"The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity."

Tracy, Brian on integrity
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"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."

Crane, Frank on trust
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"The road to perseverance lies by doubt."

Quarles, Francis on doubt
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"Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."

Iles, George on doubt
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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

Carlyle, Thomas on doubt
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"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on heroes and heroism   

"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less."

Bruyere, Jean De La on absence   

"Absence -- that common cure of love."

Cervantes, Miguel De on absence
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"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on absence
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"And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on friends and friendship
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"Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey."

Ward, William A. on obedience
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"Those who know the least obey the best."

Farquhar, George on obedience
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on insanity
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"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on insanity
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"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."

Gracian, Baltasar on insanity
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"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."

Freud, Sigmund on insanity
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"Who so loves believes the impossible."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on love
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"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."

Bruyere, Jean De La on love
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"To love a thing means wanting it to live."

Confucius on love
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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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"Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope."

Hunt, Leigh on affection
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"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."

Hemans, Felicia D. on affliction
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"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away"

Mulock, Dinah on comfort
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"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on comfort
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