"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

Channing, William Ellery on difficulties
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"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."

Woolf, Virginia on apathy
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

Allen, George on perseverance
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"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."

Buscaglia, Leo on apathy
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"Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak."

Chaplin, Ralph on apathy
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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Chopin, Frederic on apathy
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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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"Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

Huxley, Aldous on apathy
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"We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings."

Keller, Helen on apathy
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"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."

Montalvo, Juan on apathy
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"“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche"

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"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.~ James Oppenheim"

Oppenheim, James on
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on achievement
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on forgiveness
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

Devito, Danny on adversity
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"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on firmness
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"The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up."

Sexton, Anne on sea   

"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on ability
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"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on enthusiasm
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"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."

Cobbett, William on desire   

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"Reality forms around a commitment."

Unknown, Source on commitment   

"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions."

Waitley, Denis on commitment   

"To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations."

Penn, William on virtue   

"No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself."

Penn, William on control   

"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right."

Butler, Samuel on infallibility
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"Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be."

Russell, Bertrand on pornography   

"A person's fate is their own temper."

Disraeli, Benjamin on temperament
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"The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?"

Gatty, Margaret on conflict
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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on dissent
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"Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either."

Raddal, Thomas H. on past
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"A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations."

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on creativity
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"Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there."

Zucker, David on perseverance   

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

Hesburgh, Theodore M. on fathers
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"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Twain, Mark on right and rightness
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"Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"There is no wisdom like frankness."

Disraeli, Benjamin on candor
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"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on worry
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"A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit."

Herbert, George on compromise
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"A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another."

Bourget, Paul on love
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