"Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."

Updike, John on religion
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"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can."

Ball, Lucille on knowledge
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert on discovery
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"If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on discovery
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"No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

Churchill, Winston on expression
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"To fill the hour -- that is happiness."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on happiness
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"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on advice
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"Life is too short for a long story."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on anecdotes
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"Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge... and the longest life is too short."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on self-improvement   

"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on science   

"Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences."

Vidal, Gore on audiences
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"I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence."

Perls, Frederick Salomon on dream   

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

Winchell, Walter on friends and friendship
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"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."

Winchell, Walter on criticism
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"Inspiration comes of working every day."

Baudelaire, Charles on work
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"Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you."

Book, William Frederick on adaptability
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"Never permit failure to become a habit."

Book, William Frederick on habit
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"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."

James, William on wisdom
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"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on anger
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"No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

Mother Teresa on service
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"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls."

Mother Teresa on silence
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"We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love."

Mother Teresa on things and little things
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"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus."

Mother Teresa on vocation
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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the end, it is between you and HIM not you and them."

Mother Teresa on
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"Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on endurance
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"In business for yourself, not by yourself."

Kroc, Ray on business   

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

Adams, John Quincy on obstacles
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"The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal."

Smith, Francie Larrieu on motivation
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"Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power."

Thomas, Paul G. on motivation
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

Ryun, Jim on motivation
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

Schweitzer, Albert on kindness
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"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."

Schweitzer, Albert on spirituality
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

Schweitzer, Albert on service
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"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

Schweitzer, Albert on success
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"With renunciation life begins."

Barr, Amelia E. on abstinence
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"When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began."

Boehme, Jacob on silence   

"When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God."

Boehme, Jacob on power