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"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on memory
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"Well, he would, wouldn't he?"

Rice-Davies, Mandy on innuendo    Share

"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath 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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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."

Renard, Jules on literature
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"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on debate
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"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times."

Peale, Norman Vincent on belief
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"'Tis better to understand, than to be understood."

Francis of Assisi, St. on understanding
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"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."

Fromm, Erich on existence
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"Book is the new cool for the txt generation"

Wagner, Erica on book, cool, sms    Share

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

Franklin, Benjamin on conflict
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"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake."

Ray, Marie Beyon on action
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"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."

Lawrence, D. H. on humankind    Share

"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."

Nash, Ogden on happiness
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"I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born."

Kerouac, Jack on eternity
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"An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life."

Prevert, Jacques on love
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"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on happiness
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"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on happiness
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"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices."

Neruda, Pablo on books - reading
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"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. "

Neruda, Pablo on childhood    Share

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