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"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal."

Buddha on hatred
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"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law."

Buddha on hatred
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"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

Buddha on health
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"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."

Buddha on life
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"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

Buddha on anger
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha on anger
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Buddha on love
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"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on dream    Share

"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on fights and fighting
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"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."

Howe, Edgar Watson on fights and fighting
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"I have not yet begun to fight."

Jones, John Paul on fights and fighting    Share

"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."

Mccarthy, Mary on work    Share

"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man."

Mccarthy, Mary on work    Share

"There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wisdom    Share

"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."

Blake, William on wisdom    Share

"Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child."

Buddha on love
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive"

Harris, Sidney J. on forgiveness
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"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."

Harris, Sidney J. on argument
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"Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one."

Chesterfield, Lord on forgiveness    Share

"There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow."

Cicero, Marcus T. on sorrow
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"And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him."

Clough, Arthur Hugh on sorrow
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"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

Confucius on sorrow
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"Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth."

Durkheim, Emile on sorrow    Share

"Sorrow makes us children again."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sorrow
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"The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sorrow
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"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

Jefferson, Thomas on family
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Bryan, William Jennings on destiny
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"[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on humankind
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"I am a member of the rabble in good standing."

Pegler, Westbrook on humankind    Share

"Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day..."

Marden, Orison Swett on environment    Share

"It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well."

Marden, Orison Swett on joy
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"Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us."

Marden, Orison Swett on environment
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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

Shaw, George Bernard on happiness    Share

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."

Yeats, William Butler on happiness
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"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live"

Thompson, Dorothy on fear
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"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?"

Thompson, Dorothy on integrity    Share

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on integrity
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"I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people."

Miller, Henry on integrity    Share

"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."

Waitley, Denis on integrity
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