"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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"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on action
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"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on sarcasm
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"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on music
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"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on present
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"I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on self-control
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"Boredom: the desire for desires."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on bores and boredom   

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on wisdom
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"Realists do not fear the results of their study."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on reality   

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on purpose
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"Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood."

Ashley, Elizabeth on absence
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

Einstein, Albert on opposition
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Einstein, Albert on reality
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"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."

Unknown, Source on adulthood
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"Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse."

Baer, Arthur on alimony   

"Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil."

Mencken, H. L. on alimony
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"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on gratitude
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"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on happiness
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"If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on laughter
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"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on writers and writing
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