"O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast."

Shakespeare, William on books - reading   

"People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true."

Ringer, Robert J. on truth
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"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

Ballou, Hosea on hatred
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred."

Maturin, Basil W. on hatred
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"We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living."

Kennedy, John F. on exercise   

"Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

Allen, Fred A. on exercise
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"Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle."

Cher on exercise   

"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is."

DeGeneres, Ellen on health   

"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in."

Confucius on action
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"If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck"

Hasselhoff, David on action
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"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."

Erving, Julius on health   

"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."

Dangerfield, Rodney on age and aging
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"To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love."

Bonstettin on age and aging
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"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

Cousins, Norman on action
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"Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes."

Horton, Doug on action
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"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."

Weil, Simone on action   

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career."

Carnegie, Dale on criticism
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"When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light."

Barclay, H.K. on adversity
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"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on valor   

"Giving opens the way for receiving."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on giving   

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"We live in deeds

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God.
The dead have all the glory of the world."

Bailey, Philip James on achievement
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."

Bacon, Francis on change
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"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again."

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination
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"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."

Seneca on procrastination
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"I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity."

Bush, George on generosity   

"A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart."

Greville, Lord on generosity
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"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."

Mann, Horace on generosity
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"Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do."

Wilkerson, David 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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"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

Shakespeare, William on greatness
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"Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

Stimson, Henry Lewis on marriage