"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."

Pope, Alexander on beauty   

"Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume."

Proverb, French on beauty
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"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."

Reade, Charles on beauty
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"Trust not too much to an enchanting face."

Virgil on beauty
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"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."

Weil, Simone on beauty   

"You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot"

Stein, Ben on belief
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"Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions."

Stein, Ben on responsibility   

"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."

Stein, Ben on reality
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"Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done."

Stein, Ben on planning   

"You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement."

Stein, Ben on inertia
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"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."

Stein, Ben on happiness
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"No one will do it for you."

Stein, Ben on action
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"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."

Stein, Ben on cooperation
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"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

Stein, Ben on decisions
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"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders."

Stein, Ben on failure   

"There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals."

Stein, Ben on goals   

"These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them."

Aristophanes on women
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"By words the mind is winged."

Aristophanes on words
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"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on leadership   

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings."

Shakespeare, William on fate
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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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"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. "

Einstein, Albert on uncategorised   

"To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self."

Einstein, Albert on world
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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

Einstein, Albert on understanding
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"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."

Post, Laurens Van du on adversity
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"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on fantasy
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"Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on secrets   

"When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity."

West, Mae on nudity
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"Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important."

West, Mae on censorship
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"Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day."

Pilgrim, Peace on life   

"The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life."

Pilgrim, Peace on life
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"People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them."

Pilgrim, Peace on judgment and judges
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"I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives."

Pilgrim, Peace on job
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"We are all cells in the same body of humanity."

Pilgrim, Peace on humankind
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"You are within God. God is within you."

Pilgrim, Peace on god
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"Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food."

Pilgrim, Peace on food and eating   

"To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."

Pilgrim, Peace on life   

"Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it."

Pilgrim, Peace on anger
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"There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right."

Pilgrim, Peace on thoughts and thinking   

"Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God."

Pilgrim, Peace on prayer
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