"When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being."

Becker, Ernest on love
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"Is there no way out of the mind?"

Plath, Sylvia on mind
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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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"They're only truly great who are truly good."

Chapman, George on honesty
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"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on honesty
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"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

Jefferson, Thomas on honesty
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

Angelou, Maya on aggression
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"How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought..."

Plath, Sylvia on sensitivity
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"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."

Eliot, George on feelings
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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on feelings
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"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."

James, William on feelings   

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion."

Lincoln, Abraham on feelings
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"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."

Eliot, George on sensitivity
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"Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail."

Mandino, Og on smile
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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-respect
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"Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person."

Virgil on virtue
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"Physical strength in a woman -- that's what I am."

Turner, Tina on strength
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"Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body."

Szasz, Thomas on body   

"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."

Cohen, Leonard on body
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"The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new."

Brown, Norman O. on body   

"The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable."

Bhagavad Gita on body
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on character
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
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"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on choice
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"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."

Lewis, C. S. on religion
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters."

Presser, Ross on life
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"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."

Lewis, Harvey Spencer on action
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"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

Johnson, Samuel on wrong   

"Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living."

Ginott, Haim on happiness
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"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

Perls, Fritz Dr. on expectation
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity."

Watson, Thomas J. on courage   

"Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence."

Lincoln, Abraham on freedom
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on freedom
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"And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."

Woolf, Virginia on war
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"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [Americas] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. She might become the dictatress of the world: she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit. "

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