"An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it."

Bach, Richard on ideas
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.""

- Catherine de Hueck Doherty on listening
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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers."

Angelou, Maya on smile
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"The first duty of love is to listen."

Tillich, Paul on listening
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"Anything that changes your values changes your behavior."

Sheehan, George on value
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"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on action
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"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

Alexander The Great on unity
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"A smile on the face is a sign that the heart is at home."

Unknown, Source on smile
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"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."

Steinem, Gloria on poverty and the poor
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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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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"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."

Brown, Les on forgiveness
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"Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most."

Unknown, Source on home
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit."

Morrow, Dwight Whitney on achievement
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched."

Phaedrus on achievement
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"sometimes you don't know you've crossed the line until you're on the other side and can't go back."

Unknown on unknown
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"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another."

Aesop on discontent
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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop on advice
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"How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best."

Proverb on dress
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"Man does what he can, God does what he will."

Proverb on god
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"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Miller, Henry on world
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"What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of."

Beggs, Jim on speakers and speaking   

"When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt."

Unknown, Source on failure   

"Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."

Vaneigem, Raoul on books - reading
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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."

Vaneigem, Raoul on riches   

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

Schuller, Robert H. on problems
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter."

Carroll, Lewis on goals
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"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about."

Whorf, Benjamin Lee on language
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"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De on kindness
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"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

Kristofferson, Kris on freedom
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"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."

Barton, Bruce on hope
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