"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us."

Wilde, Oscar on blame
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"If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill."

Welsh, Joan on laziness
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"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."

Kierkegaard, Søren on self-expression
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"You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on reliance   

"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true."

Browning, Robert on sincerity
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"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sincerity
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"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power
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"Interdependency follows independence."

Covey, Stephen R. on dependence
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"Stubbornness is the strength of the weak."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on stubbornness
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"Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on humankind
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"Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on guilt   

"So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on soldier
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"Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?"

Young, Brigham on silence
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"When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!"

Unknown, Source on dream
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"Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. [Proverbs 11:14]"

Bible on advice
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"A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]"

Bible on abundance
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"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

Jordan, June on feminism
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"Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."

Bierce, Ambrose on absurdity
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"Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. [Colossians 3:2]"

Bible on affection
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"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]"

Bible on age and aging
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"A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others. [Proverbs 12:15]"

Bible on advice
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"Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does."

Dane, Frank on home
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"Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]"

Bible on evil
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"There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]"

Bible on joy
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"The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. [Proverbs 13:19]"

Bible on desire
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"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."

Waitley, Denis on effort
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"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating."

Waitley, Denis on joy
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"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece."

Waitley, Denis on excellence
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"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."

Waitley, Denis on expectation
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"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success."

Waitley, Denis on fulfillment   

"Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."

Waitley, Denis on goals   

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning."

Waitley, Denis on effort
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"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

Waitley, Denis on dream
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"There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them."

Proverb, French on miracles
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"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."

Stoppard, Tom on age and aging
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"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."

Cummings, Fr. Jerome on friends and friendship
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