"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

Hepburn, Katharine on women
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"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

Foch, Ferdinand on failure
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on suicide
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease."

Witherspoon on speakers and speaking   

"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

Aurelius, Marcus on evil
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"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."

Aurelius, Marcus on fulfillment
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"Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!"

Pitzer, Gloria on procrastination
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"It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest."

Wilde, Oscar on saints   

"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on happiness
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"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."

Woolf, Virginia on pain
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"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"

Heschel, Abraham J. on questions
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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on achievement
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"The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on quotations
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"More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. "

Warren, Robert Penn on uncategorised   

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on decisions
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"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."

Socrates on influence
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"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."

Fitzhenry, R. I. on uncertainty
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"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

Burns, Robert on certainty   

"Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful."

Wylie, Ida R. on fidelity
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"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."

Butler, Nicholas on experts   

"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on love
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"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on achievement
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"Paradise is Where I Am."

Voltaire on mind
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"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on books - reading
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

Malcolm X on libraries
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."

Johnson, Samuel on perseverance
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"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."

Walpole, Horace on life
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"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."

Ziglar, Zig on friends and friendship
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"Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners."

Shakespeare, William on power
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"There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"Despair is the only genuine atheism."

Paul, Jean on despair
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" Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in. "

J. Harris, Sidney on uniqueness
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"Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on want
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."

Pound, Ezra on freedom
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