"When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand."

Schucman, Helen on peace
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"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces."

Arendt, Hannah on love
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."

Aragon, Louis on love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"We are on the other end of our own leash"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."

Barenboim, Daniel on art
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"He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence."

Blake, William on desire
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"Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take."

Billings, Josh on advice
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"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Bierce, Ambrose on abstinence
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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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"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on decisions
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"We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready -- even eager -- to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on advertising   

"That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all."

Beecher, Henry Ward on culture   

"Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on affliction
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"The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all."

Bowen, Catherine Drinker on scholars and scholarship   

"It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home."

Bowen, Elizabeth on emotions   

"some people sell their soul for something as little as ice water and don't even drink it"

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"The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care."

Bradley, Francis H. on fear
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"The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie."

Bogan, Louise on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts."

Bhagavad Gita on doubt
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"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

Baudelaire, Charles on evil
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"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."

Baudrillard, Jean on democracy   

"Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance."

Bayly, Joseph on death
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"That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised   

"We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals."

Beckett, Samuel on age and aging   

"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Beecher, Henry Ward on debt   

"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."

Burton, Sir Richard on affliction
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"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."

Benjamin, Walter on advice
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"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."

Bennett, Arnold on effort
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