"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

Joyce, James on mistakes
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"Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing."

Bourne, Randolph S. on friends and friendship
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"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

Brookner, Anita on friends and friendship
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"For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required."

Proverb, Indian on friends and friendship
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"Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on silence
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on choice   

"A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship   

"The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again."

Kingsley, Charles on change   

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Addison, Joseph on appreciation
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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

Alcott, Louisa May on vision
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"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."

Grant, Ulysses S. on friends and friendship
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on absence
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"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

Cioran, E. M. on suicide
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"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."

Benjamin, Walter on destructiveness
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"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suicide
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"Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life."

Havel, Vaclav on suicide
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"Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation."

Kierkegaard, Søren on deliberation
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on suicide
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"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on religion
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"The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide."

Brown, Dean Charles R. on cynics and cynicism
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"Drunkenness is temporary suicide."

Russell, Bertrand on alcohol and alcoholism
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"If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will."

Artaud, Antonin on suicide
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"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."

Webster, Daniel on confession   

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."

Latimer, George Horace on money
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"Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?"

Shakespeare, William on suicide
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"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light."

Miller, Joaquin on death   

"There is a remedy for everything; it is called death."

Proverb, Portuguese on death
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"Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"For precious friends hid in death's dateless night."

Shakespeare, William on bereavement
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"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Proverb, Spanish on solitude
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"Debate is the death of conversation."

Ludwig, Emil on argument   

"The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination."

Meredith, George on imagination   

"Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"

Woolf, Virginia on death   

"Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready."

Williams, Robin on death
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"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."

Whitman, Walt on death
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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates on death
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"Life is a dream walking death is a going home."

Proverb, Chinese on death
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"The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death."

Maistre, Joseph De on sacrifice