"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."

Dickens, Charles on home
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"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."

Churchill, Winston on home
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"Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need."

Breathnach, Sarah Ban on home
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"As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life."

Jeffers, Susan on possibilities   

"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

Ball, Lucille on age and aging
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"Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese."

Burke, Billie on age and aging
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"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

Burroughs, John on age and aging
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"Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons."

Cass, Eli on age and aging
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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Szasz, Thomas on adulthood
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"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."

Garfield, James A. on age and aging   

"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."

Hayes, Helen on age and aging
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"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."

Augustine, St. on freedom
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"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance."

Benjamin, Walter on absence
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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers."

Angelou, Maya on smile
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

Belloc, Hilaire on friends and friendship
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"Hope is the parent of faith."

Bartol, Cyrus A. on hope
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"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."

Dangerfield, Rodney on children   

"Families are about love overcoming emotional torture."

Groening, Matt on family
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"Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God."

Angelou, Maya on children
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
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"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

Angelou, Maya on isolation
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"Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built."

Dobson, Dr. James C. on children   

"Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations."

Dobson, Dr. James C. on children
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"A faithful companion is a sure anchor."

Motto on trust
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"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."

Greene, Graham on trust
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"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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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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"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love -- and to put its trust in life."

Conrad, Joseph on trust
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"Trust me not at all, or all in all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on trust
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"My father used to say: Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

Young, Stark on trust
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"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on success
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"We fall forward to succeed."

Ash, Mary Kay on success
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"Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established."

Bataille, Georges on sanity   

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

Bernstein, Al on success   

"When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure."

Binstock, Louis on success
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