"'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone."

Moore, Thomas on flowers
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."

James, Henry on exile
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"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."

Patrick, John on wisdom
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"Appreciate those who love you. Help those who need you. Forgive those who hurt you. Forget those who leave you."

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"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

Monroe, Marilyn on
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"Nothing fixes a thing so intensly in the memory as the wish to forget it."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on memories   

"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."

Bacon, Francis on hope
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"The best revenge is massive success."

Sinatra, Frank on revenge
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on equality
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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts
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"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it."

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"If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today."

Chapman, Joyce on past
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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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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."

Orwell, George on achievement
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"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."

Ovid on achievement
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."

Plutarch on achievement
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van on achievement
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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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"To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not."

Kleiser, Grenville on problems
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"It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions."

Proust, Marcel on resolution   

"The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind."

Proust, Marcel on relationship   

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Proust, Marcel on memory   

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Proust, Marcel on happiness
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"The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity."

Proust, Marcel on habit
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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 say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."

Proust, Marcel on death
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"For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill."

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"All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."

Proust, Marcel on decisions   

"Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them."

Holtz, Lou on problems
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."

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"Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory."

Marden, Orison Swett on failure   

"To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working."

Weaver, Dennis on achievement
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"Don't mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on achievement
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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

Reading, Lady Stella on achievement
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"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."

Robbins, Anthony on achievement
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"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

Rank, Otto on achievement
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