"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings."

Victor Hugo on self-confidence
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"If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him."

Seneca on goals
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"The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself."

Havner, Vance on evil
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"When life gets you down, sometimes it's best to just stay down for a moment, let yourself rest... and then get up later."

Kessler, Daniella on rest
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"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

Aesop on anger
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"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."

Aesop on misfortunes
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

Patton, George S. on courage
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"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth"

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on spirituality
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"There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on vanity   

"Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on vanity
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"The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain."

Ruskin, John on vanity
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"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."

Bono, Edward De on intelligence and intellectuals
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"A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse."

Seneca on gratitude
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on passion
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"A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."

Wilde, Oscar on pessimism
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"If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning."

Cannon, Damien on pessimism
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"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."

Markham, Edwin on life   

"Live truth instead of professing it."

Hubbard, Elbert on truth
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"I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could."

Rabelais, Francois on potential   

"A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war."

Dyke, Henry Van on peace
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"Let the ideas clash but not the hearts."

Mehta, C. C. on peace
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]"

Shakespeare, William on greatness
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"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."

Proverb, Chinese on names
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"She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it."

Almanac, Mary S. on possibilities
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"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

Ali, Muhammad on humility
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything."

Wilde, Oscar on trust
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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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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the end, it is between you and HIM not you and them."

Mother Teresa on
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

Hoppe, C. on achievement
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"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on mind
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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