"Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change."

Jackson, Jesse on change
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"Answered prayers cause more tears than those that remain unanswered."

Teresa of Avila, St. on prayer
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"The busy have no time for tears."

Byron, Lord on sorrow
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"The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle."

Keitel, Harvey on struggle
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"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on talkativeness
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"We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it."

Hoffer, Eric on talkativeness
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"They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think."

Prior, Matthew on talkativeness   

"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming."

Proverb, English on talkativeness
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"The more you know the less you need to say."

Rohn, Jim on talkativeness
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"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."

Wilde, Oscar on talkativeness
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"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."

Epicurus on friends and friendship
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

Clark, Frank A. on direction
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"Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -- he hath awakened from the dream of life -- 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife."

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"Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond."

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"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on grief
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"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

Disraeli, Benjamin on grief
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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

Irving, Washington on tears
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