"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."

Edwards, Tryon on self-improvement
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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on marriage
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Hill, Napoleon on sacrifice
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"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."

Chazal, Malcolm De on love
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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"One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world."

Proverb, Jewish on family
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"We must travel in the direction of our fear."

Berryman, John on fear
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"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on laughter
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"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day."

Bible on worry
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"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet."

Proverb, African on fools and foolishness
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"Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk."

Gibb, Jack on self-confidence
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"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."

Bodett, Tom on laughter
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"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one."

Proverb, Chinese on dream
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"Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

Proverb, Chinese on progress
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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."

Fuller, Thomas on life
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"God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers."

Saying, Jewish on mothers
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"Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight."

DeFrantz, Anita on goals
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

Jowett, Benjamin on achievement
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"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

Link, Henry C. on mistakes
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"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

Plato on love
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"There's no one thing that is true. They're all true."

Hemingway, Ernest on truth   

"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."

Waitley, Denis on expectation
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"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."

Maritain, Jacques on character
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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life. "

Proust, Marcel on   

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."

Dalai Lama on self   

"To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on love
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"Most smiles are started by another smile."

Clark, Frank A. on smile
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"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."

Kafka, Franz on book,reading   

"In His will is our peace."

Dante Alighieri on god
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"I am more important than my problems."

Ferrer, Jose on courage
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"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

Gandhi, Mahatma on leadership
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"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Arden, Elizabeth on age and aging
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"A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does."

Hershey, Lewis B on adulthood
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"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

Buscaglia, Leo on honesty
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