"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."

Stein, Ben on reality
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"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."

Howe, Edgar Watson on laughter
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"Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made."

Howe, Edgar Watson on promises   

"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

Aeschylus on suffering
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"The reward of suffering is experience."

Aeschylus on adversity
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"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."

Dune, Frank Herbert on adversity
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"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."

Cohen, Leonard on depression
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"Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."

Guest, Judith on depression
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"Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?"

Guest, Judith on love
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"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

Burton, Robert on love
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"Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits."

Sontag, Susan on depression
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"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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"A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods."

Henri, Robert on methods   

"Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?"

Young, Brigham on silence
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"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."

Joubert, Joseph on anger
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"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

Auden, W. H. on books - reading
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"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"

Auden, W. H. on faith
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"Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done."

Auden, W. H. on men   

"As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him."

Akhenaton on anger   

"Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason."

Alger, William R. on anger   

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"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

Angelis, Barbara De on anger
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

Aurelius, Marcus on anger
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"Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor."

Bacon, Francis on anger
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"Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt."

Baldwin, James on anger
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"If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger
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"The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger   

"A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]"

Bible on anger
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"The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]"

Bible on anger
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"My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]"

Bible on anger
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"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."

Bible on anger
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"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]"

Bible on anger
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"Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]"

Bible on anger
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on anger
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"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

Buddha on anger
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"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."

Buddha on doubt
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"If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater."

Buddha on joy
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"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

Buddha on evil
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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