"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty   

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"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."

Wilde, Oscar on wealth
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."

Aristotle on pleasure
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"Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs."

Billings, Josh on pleasure   

"For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality."

Branden, Nathaniel on pleasure
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"Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on pleasure
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"Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you."

Chesterfield, Lord on pleasure
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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

Drabble, Margaret on pleasure
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"Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord."

Bible on marriage   

"Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]"

Bible on marriage
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

Tagore, Rabindranath on time
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."

Sutzkever, Abraham on age and aging
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"What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you."

Dyer, Wayne on anger
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"Time discovered truth."

Seneca on time
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on motivation
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch."

Steele, Sir Richard on books - reading
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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

James, William on attitude
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"You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace."

Cooke, E. V. on failure
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"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

Aimee, Anouk on age and aging
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"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

Ali, Muhammad on age and aging
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"With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]"

Bible on age and aging
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"Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances."

Havlicek, John on risk   

" man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,"

Shakespeare, William on uncategorised
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"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion."

Rogers, Will on opinions
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"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."

Wilde, Oscar on books - reading
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"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily."

Ziglar, Zig on motivation
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"It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation."

Khan, Pir Vilayat on action   

"All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on passion
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"The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence."

Thomas, Edward on importance
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene."

Bresson, Robert on nudity   

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

Aurelius, Marcus on environment
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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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"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on."

Shakespeare, William on misfortunes
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"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

Jefferson, Thomas on family
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"Family is the most important thing in the world."

Diana, Princess of Wales on family
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"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."

Horton, Doug on adversity
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"To live is not breathing it is action."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on life   

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

Wooden, John on performance
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