"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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"I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

Thoreau, Henry David on failure
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"Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself."

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"The heart that truly loves never forgets."

Proverb on art
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"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."

Adler, Alfred on inferiority
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"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal."

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"Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English."

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"It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it."

Jung, Carl on dream
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"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

Jung, Carl on chaos
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"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."

Fowler, Gene on opposition
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"And life, after all, is not what we want, but what we have."

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"People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie."

Capote, Truman on relationship
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"For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship."

Beatty, Warren on relationship
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"A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."

Allen, Woody on relationship
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"Every Passing Minute Is Another Chance To Turn It All Around."

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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on affection
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"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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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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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

Carver, George Washington on hope
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"Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure."

Cowley, Abraham on hope
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

Franklin, Benjamin on hope
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"Doubt can only be removed by action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour."

Blake, William on eternity
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back."

Proverb, Turkish on failure
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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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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Augustine, St. on love
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"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."

Battista, Orlando A. on love
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"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."

Havel, Vaclav on absurdity
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Epictetus on attitude
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"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on religion
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"Hell is other people."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on hell
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