"Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows."

Joubert, Joseph on ideals and idealism   

"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."

Key, Ellen on ideals and idealism   

"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."

Bacon, Francis on fear
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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on grief
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"Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting."

Brisbane, Arthur on regret
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

Hoppe, C. on achievement
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."

Jowett, Benjamin on achievement
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"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."

Kuralt, Charles on achievement
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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden, John on mistakes
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"The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary."

Smith, May V. on success
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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds."

Durant, William J. on mind
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"You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self."

Mccant, Jerry on marriage
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"Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it."

Butler, Samuel on wisdom   

"Wisdom overcomes fortune."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on wisdom   

"In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor."

Miller, Henry on creation   

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Miller, Henry on insecurity
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"A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself."

Mill, John Stuart on insecurity   

"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

Mansfield, Katherine on books - reading
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"A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less."

Khan, Pir Vilayat on ideals and idealism   

"The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him."

Patocka, Jan on destiny
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"The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god."

Alexander, Scott on money
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"Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in."

Haldeman, Harold Robbins on results
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"He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn."

Davies, Robertson on journalism and journalists   

"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

Seneca on goals
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"Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections."

Klemmer, Brian on practice   

"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."

Billings, Josh on brevity
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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

Smith, Alexander on love
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

Wooden, John on attitude
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

Schweitzer, Albert on kindness
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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