"Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Allen, James on destiny
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"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

Confucius on fate
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"Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person."

Thurber, James on love   

"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

Thurber, James on love
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"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

Tracy, Brian on love
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"What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable."

Unknown, Source on love
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"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live"

Unknown, Source on love
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"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit"

Shakespeare, William on love
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"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing."

Rowland, Helen on love
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"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."

West, Rebecca on conversation
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"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."

Franklin, Benjamin on laziness
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say."

Miller, Henry on hope
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"Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic."

Johnson, Samuel on criticism   

"Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on criticism   

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

Mencken, H. L. on criticism   

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

Holtz, Lou on adversity
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"You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."

Holtz, Lou on criticism
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"Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated."

Holtz, Lou on service   

"Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets."

Warhol, Andy on sex
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Allen, Woody on sex
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"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

Jung, Carl on individuality
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character."

Bonnell, John S. on discipline   

"No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on discipline   

"If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside."

Athens, Critias of on discipline   

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us."

Feather, William on discipline
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"Without discipline, there is no life at all."

Hepburn, Katharine on discipline
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"Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

Heschel, Abraham J. on discipline   

"Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men."

Jarry, Alfred on discipline   

"He who lives without discipline dies without honor."

Proverb, Icelandic on discipline   

"If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once."

Scott, Sir Walter on discipline   

"It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible."

Aristotle on excellence
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"It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."

Adler, Renata on style   

"A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs."

Chanel, Coco on style   

"The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off."

Chandler, Raymond on style