"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

Ford, Henry on failure
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Dyer, Wayne on perspective
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"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

Dyer, Wayne on control
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"When life gets you down, sometimes it's best to just stay down for a moment, let yourself rest... and then get up later."

Kessler, Daniella on rest
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"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

Buscaglia, Leo on honesty
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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Arden, Elizabeth on age and aging
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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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"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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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it."

Wilde, Oscar on self-interest
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"Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are."

Dryden, John on pain
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"Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again."

Harte, Bret on pain
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on hope
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on loneliness
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity."

Smith, Roy L. on character
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"Heart always says the truth, mind just analyse this is it or not.."

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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Beaton, Sir Cecil on courage
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"The way you feel about people, places, things, and ideas in life will always determine how you interact and involve yourself with them. Your attitude governs your entire life."

Pinckney, Patrick on
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"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself."

Sterne, Laurence on solitude
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"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature."

Voltaire on faults
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"This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit."

Shakespeare, William on lust
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

Graham, Billy on jesus christ
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"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

Beecher, Henry Ward on difficulties
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Miller, Henry on world
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"People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do."

Howe, Edgar Watson on trying
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"When your in constant war with yourself, who wins! Your head, or emotions? -KaMilaOnikosi"

KaMila Onikosi on battles   

"No one helps you, if you are not helping yourself. "

Tadj Abelkader on help
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"Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."

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"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

Winfrey, Oprah on association
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"Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates."

Szasz, Thomas on self discovery
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"Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning."

Unknown, Source on communication
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"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is."

Dyer, Wayne on enlightenment
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"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality."

Dyer, Wayne on abundance
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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

Dyer, Wayne on abundance
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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