"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Bard, Carl on beginning
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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."

Baldwin, James on belief
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"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

Anthony, Dr. Robert on belief
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"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy."

Twain, Mark on biography
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"All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life."

West, Rebecca on biography   

"There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you."

Eliot, George on beauty
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"Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are."

Bristol, Claude M. on belief
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"The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do."

Barton, Bruce on belief
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"More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much."

Barnum, P.T. on belief
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"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. -"

Thích Nhat Hanh on blame
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"We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster."

Roosevelt, Theodore on blame
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"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

Plutarch on blame
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"He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men."

Kempis, Thomas on blame
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"Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."

Wilde, Oscar on biography   

"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."

Descartes, Rene on behavior
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"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."

Dyer, Wayne on blame
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"There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row."

Bennett, Arnold on blame   

"Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on appearance
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"We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it."

Unknown, Source on appreciation
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"The greatest need of every human being is the need for appreciation."

Unknown, Source on appreciation
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"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly."

Paine, Thomas on appreciation
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."

Fuller, Thomas on appreciation
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"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on arrogance
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"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."

Camus, Albert on arrogance
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"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."

Woolf, Virginia on war
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"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."

Cohen, Herb on appearance
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"He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it."

Fuller, Thomas on appearance
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"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."

La Fontaine, Jean De on appearance
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"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on blame
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"Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top."

Beaumont, Francis on behavior   

"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat."

Eliot, George on battles
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"Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

Wesley, John on appearance   

"The best mirror is an old friend."

Proverb on appearance
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"Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."

Phaedrus on appearance
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"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive -- you are leaking."

Lebowitz, Fran on appearance   

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Addison, Joseph on appreciation
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"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

Carlyle, Thomas on history and historians
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"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."

Dryden, John on habit   

"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."

Froude, James A. on history and historians