"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]"

Bach, Richard on truth
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"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."

Christie, Agatha on regret
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

Christie, Agatha on
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"I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do."

Christie, Agatha on ability
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Half, Robert on ability
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"Time spent on hiring is time well spent."

Half, Robert on time   

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

Half, Robert on talent
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."

Cicero, Marcus T. on mistakes
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

Gesser on adversity
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"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."

Collier, Robert on adversity
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"I bring to my life a certain amount of mess."

Coppola, Francis Ford on adversity
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

Devito, Danny on adversity
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."

Epicurus on friends and friendship
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"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."

Epicurus on masses
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"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."

Epicurus on misfortunes
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"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on misfortunes
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"Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on decisions
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"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on trust
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"Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death."

Cervantes, Miguel De on remedies   

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."

Collier, Robert on success
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"Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr."

Suso, Heinrich on suffering
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

Keller, Helen on suffering
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"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."

DeVos, Richard M. on expectation
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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -"

Budgell, Eustace on friends and friendship
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"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."

Joubert, Joseph on books - reading
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"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

James, William on belief
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"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them."

Aurelius, Marcus on change
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing."

Bastos, Augusto Roa on change
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"Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

Bennett, Arnold on change
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"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."

Winchell, Walter on criticism
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"Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty."

Bible on work
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