"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship."

Thayer, Mary Dixon on friends and friendship
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"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

Bronte, Charlotte on friends and friendship
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"It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived."

Sontag, Susan on memory
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it."

Mann, Thomas on admiration   

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Francis of Assisi, St. on impossibility
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu on kindness
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"Anger is short madness"

Horace on anger
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"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear."

Hurston, Zora Neale on fear
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings."

Child, Lydia M. on home
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"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Proverb, Spanish on solitude
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"The most complex things are the simplest."

Celeste, Agni on simplicity
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"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."

Bailey, Philip James on simplicity   

"Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine."

Rossetti, Christina on love
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"Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you."

Vries, Peter De on parents and parenting   

"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly."

Vries, Peter De on marriage
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"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults."

Vries, Peter De on marriage
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"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it."

Lehrer, Tom on life
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"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained."

Abbott, Lyman on children
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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."

Dean, James on dream
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on hope
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"A mother who is really a mother is never free."

Balzac, Honore De on mothers
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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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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

Burton, Sir Richard on friends and friendship
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

Camus, Albert on discontent
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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