"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on life
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"We learn by teaching."

Proverb on learning
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"Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done."

Packard, Vance on leadership   

"Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself."

Johnson, Samuel on knowledge   

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."

Syrus, Publilius on kindness   

"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality."

Carrel, Alexis on intuition   

"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on importance
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"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on hatred
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"Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights."

Thoreau, Henry David on humility
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?"

Browning, Robert on goals   

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Drucker, Peter F. on the future
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"Friendship needs no words..."

Hammarskjold, Dag on friends and friendship
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"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end."

Quarles, Francis on friends and friendship   

"An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship."

Proverb, Spanish on friends and friendship   

"The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses."

Storey, David on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own."

Wilson, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy."

Tieck, Johann Ludwig on life   

"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it."

Drew, Elizabeth on literature
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"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on understanding
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"Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. "

Bible on uncategorised
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"The truth shall set you free."

Bible on truth
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"To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student."

La Harpe, Frederic-Cesar on teacher
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"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie on argument   

"They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained."

Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie on spirituality   

"I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did."

Gabirol, Ibn on silence   

"Shame is worse than death."

Proverb, Russian on shame
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"Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide."

Newton, Sir Isaac on security   

"Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near."

Bible on salvation   

"Begin to weave and God will give the thread."

Proverb, German on procrastination
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"Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on preparation
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"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised
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"I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on opinions   

"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being."

Gandhi, Mahatma on nonviolence
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"Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it."

Garfield, Charles A. on mission   

"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor."

Euripides on food and eating