"The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on happiness   

"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on silence   

"The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on war   

"Good is not good, when better is expected."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation
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"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."

Hemingway, Ernest on hunting   

"In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused."

Hemingway, Ernest on experience
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"Our job is like a baker's work -- his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on journalism and journalists   

"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."

Greene, Graham on journalism and journalists
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"Journalism is literature in a hurry."

Arnold, Matthew on journalism and journalists
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"The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."

Bernstein, Carl on journalism and journalists
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"Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on journalism and journalists
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"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on journalism and journalists
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"Journalism is organized gossip."

Eggleston, Edward on journalism and journalists
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"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Self-command is the main discipline."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on discipline
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"All diseases run into one. Old age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on disease
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"Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on duty
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"To the sick, while there is life there is hope."

Cicero, Marcus T. on hope
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

Cowley, Abraham on hope
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on hope
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Fuller, Thomas on hope
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"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on hope
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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

Disraeli, Benjamin on love
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves."

Diana, Princess of Wales on love
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"For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."

Dioum, Baba on love
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"To fail to love is not to exist at all."

Doren, Mark Van on love
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"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."

Dyer, Wayne on love
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"People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel."

Federman, Irwin on love
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"Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking."

Taylor, Susan on thoughts and thinking
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"Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on fate
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"If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water."

Proverb, Yiddish on destiny   

"He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned."

Proverb, French on destiny
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"One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."

Proverb, French on destiny
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