"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

Colton, Charles Caleb on friends and friendship
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"To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two."

Douglas, Norman on friends and friendship
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"Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates."

Szasz, Thomas on self discovery
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"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?"

Harris, Sidney J. on self discovery   

"No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town."

Wilson, Robert on self discovery   

"Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else."

Unknown, Source on self discovery
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"Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."

Colton, Charles Caleb on difficulties
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"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

Channing, William Ellery on difficulties
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"When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time."

Marden, Orison Swett on obstacles   

"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."

Butterworth, Eric on desire
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"Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do."

Peale, Norman Vincent on enthusiasm
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Aristotle on suffering
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"Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."

Walters, J. Donald on acceptance
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"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"The impossible is often the untried."

Goodwin, Jim on impossibility
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

Thoreau, Henry David on present
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"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered "

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"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

Carnegie, Dale on bores and boredom
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"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on life
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"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

Hansen, Mark Victor on achievement
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"The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse."

Unknown, Source on desire
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"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."

Schweitzer, Albert on adversity
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"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

Kennedy, Rose F. on adversity
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on adversity
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"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily."

Ziglar, Zig on motivation
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on goals
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"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu on attachment
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"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

Ziglar, Zig on potential
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