"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa on love
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais on love
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"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on war
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"Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise."

Cooke, E. V. on war   

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Buddha on war
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"Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on war
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"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

Miller, Henry on war
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"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright."

Benjamin, Walter on war
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us."

Maupassant, Guy de on love
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"Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?"

Maupassant, Guy de on conversation
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"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on conversation   

"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus."

Twain, Mark on judgment and judges
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"Success is a journey, not a destination."

Sweetland, Ben on success
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"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little."

Sweetland, Ben on expectation   

"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life."

Sweetland, Ben on possibilities   

"If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"

DeVos, Richard M. on possibilities   

"It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on circumstance
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"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."

Waitley, Denis on self-image
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"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."

Hegel, Georg on faults   

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"If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie."

Maugham, W. Somerset on public opinion   

"Listen. Don't explain or justify."

Dyer, William G. on listening
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"Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase."

Walters, Dottie on success
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"Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1."

Ashe, Arthur on success
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"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."

Franklin, Benjamin on want
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"Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else."

Prince, Ray on work   

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

Cicero, Marcus T. on gratitude
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus on gratitude
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"You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

Drummond, Henry on love
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"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."

Angelis, Barbara De on happiness
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"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."

Feather, William on happiness
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"Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times."

Feather, William on age and aging
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"It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world"

Siegel, Bernie S. on experience
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"Hoping means that the outcome you want is possible, and working for it."

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"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."

Gibran, Kahlil on contentment
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"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."

Plutarch on fate
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"But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs."

Campbell on fate   

"The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round."

Pollard, Josephine on fate   

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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