"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."

Perot, H. Ross on action
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"Never mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"Lìfe doesnt listen to your logic. It goes on its own way undisturbed. You have to listen life. It doesnt bother about your logic.. "

Osho on
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"I dream, therefore I exist."

Strindberg, J. August on dream
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"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"The fewer the words, the better the prayer."

Luther, Martin on brevity
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"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on civilization
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"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."

Asch, Sholem on memory
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"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination."

Shaw, George Bernard on kings
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"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness"

Seneca on kindness
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"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on spirituality
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"Anyone can hate. It costs to love."

Williamson, John on hatred
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"Happiness is a sort of action."

Aristotle on happiness
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith."

Junius on persuasion   

"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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"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

Horne, Lena on attitude
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"The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it."

Voltaire on character
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"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."

Meltzer, Bernard on kisses and kissing
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"Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."

Rather, Dan on trials
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"Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on mistakes
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"Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe."

Hertl, Nick on love
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"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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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible."

Massie, Allan on responsibility
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"Love poems are always cliche to me but not to the person it’s for."

Dye, James on love
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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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"There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself."

Esra, Abraham Ibn on loneliness
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"What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable."

Unknown, Source on love
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"It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work."

Shaw, George Bernard on self-confidence
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on friends and friendship
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"Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know."

Hightower, Cullen on conversation
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"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

Barrie, Sir James M. on youth
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

Carver, George Washington on failure
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