"Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself."

Zeno, Citium on things and little things   

"There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness."

Han Suyin on gentleness   

"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on friends and friendship
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"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"The key to why things change is the key to everything."

Burke, James E. on understanding
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"Don't cross the bridge till you come to it."

Proverb on expectation
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"Kind words are worth much and they cost little."

Proverb on kindness
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"Go further...treat others as THEY would like to be treated"

McCarthy, Fred on kindness
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"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."

Helps, Sir Arthur on kindness   

"The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment."

Helps, Sir Arthur on advice
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"The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."

Ustinov, Peter on optimism
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"Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power."

Baudrillard, Jean on depression
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"feeling a little like how I'm feeling is not right for someone who has so much to smile about"

Unknown on depression
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"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."

Hemingway, Ernest on depression
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"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on challenges
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

Graham, Billy on jesus christ
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"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

Beecher, Henry Ward on words
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"The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold."

Unknown, Source on words   

"Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live."

Parker, Dorothy on suicide
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on loneliness
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"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on loneliness
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"There is no original truth, only original error."

Bachelard, Gaston on mistakes
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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Adams, Henry Brooks on words
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"Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions"

Proust, Marcel on decisions
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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

Adams, Abigail on words
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"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

Hugo, Victor on life
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"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

Simpson, Homer on understanding
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"Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

Nightingale, Earl on fear
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"Yearn to understand first and to be understood second."

Lewis, Beca on understanding
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"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing."

Dyer, Wayne on preparation
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"The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite."

Johnson, Gerald W. on mind
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"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life."

Thoreau, Henry David on health
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"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

Thoreau, Henry David on books - reading
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"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

Dickens, Charles on books - reading
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on acceptance
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

Rougamont, Denis De on acceptance
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"Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on acceptance
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"We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature."

Wylie, Ida R. on acceptance
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"To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer."

Degreen, Keith on success
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"The great recipe for success is to work, and always work."

Gambetta, Leon on success
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