"Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on action   

"Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on imagination   

"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

Alther, Lisa on change
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"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on change
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing."

Astor, Lady Nancy on change
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"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on change
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"Music can't change the world."

Geldof, Bob on change
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"Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more."

Dresses, H. W. on effort
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"From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned."

Durkheim, Emile on greed   

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."

Fromm, Erich on greed
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"The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit."

Horace on greed   

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."

Jefferson, Thomas on greed
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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on greed
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"Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire."

Bhagavad Gita on selfishness
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"How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,"

Lamb, Charles on selfishness   

"Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself."

Cortazar, Julio on selfishness
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"I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely."

Basinger, Kim on intuition   

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on intuition
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"You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal."

Munro, Barry on purpose
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"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

France, Anatole on action
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"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them."

Horace on work   

"Power tires only those who do not have it."

Andreotti, Giulio on power
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"The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power
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"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ideas   

"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted."

Smiles, Samuel on action
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"He that does good to another does good also to himself."

Seneca on cooperation
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"Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die."

Dale, Stan on fear
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"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."

Bancroft, George on science   

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information."

Eliot, T. S. on information
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"In my beginning is my end."

Eliot, T. S. on beginning
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"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

Stoppard, Tom on beginning
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"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."

Buddha on meditation
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"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose."

Easwaran, Eknath on meditation
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"It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it."

Maharshi, Ramana on meditation
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"In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil."

Patanjali on meditation   

"Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation."

Upanishad, Shvetashvatara on meditation