"If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way"

Unknown, Source on past   

"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."

Barzun, Jacques on tragedies
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"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

Cousins, Norman on tragedies
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"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."

King Jr. Martin Luther on tragedies
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"When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness."

Vizinczey, Stephen on tragedies
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"Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you."

Brown, Les on control
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"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

Chuang Tzu on control
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"Nothing external to you has any power over you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on control
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"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."

Franklin, Benjamin on control
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"Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all."

Fuller, Thomas on control   

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

Lincoln, Abraham on control
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"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are..."

Stevens, Cat on choice   

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

Marx, Groucho on choice
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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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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"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her."

Rowland, Helen on absence
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

Cowper, William on absence
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"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on absence
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Envy and wrath shorten the life. [Ecclesiasticus]"

Bible on envy
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"They that envy others are their inferiors."

Saying on envy
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"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

Bowen, Elizabeth on jealousy
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"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive."

Ellis, Havelock on jealousy
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"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on jealousy
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"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."

Angelou, Maya on children
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"There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures."

Penn, William on friends and friendship
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"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on forgiveness
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"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

Balzac, Honore De on forgiveness
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"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"

Shaw, George Bernard on forgiveness
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"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

Bruyere, Jean De La on friends and friendship
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"I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on forgiveness
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"Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at."

Sterne, Laurence on forgiveness
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"Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give."

Oxenham, John on love
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"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

Ward, William A. on planning
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

Beecher, Henry Ward on friends and friendship
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."

Auden, W. H. on friends and friendship
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