"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on Hope
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Love
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"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Happiness
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"We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Goodness
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"Since when was genius found respectable?"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Genius
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"If you desire faith, then you have faith enough."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Faith
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"You can't create experience. You must undergo it."

Camus, Albert on Experience
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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

Butler, Samuel on Experience
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"I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise."

Buddha on Experience
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"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

Augustine, St. on Experience
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"We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love."

Mother Teresa on Things and Little Things
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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the end, it is between you and HIM not you and them."

Mother Teresa on
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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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"Books succeed, and lives fail."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Books - Reading
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on Experience
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"Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."

Augustine, St. on Faith
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"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"

Auden, W. H. on Faith
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"Her eyes are homes of silent prayers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Eyes
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"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Italian on Experience
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"When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him."

Euripides on Empathy
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"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Huxley, Aldous on Experience
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"The fool knows after he's suffered."

Hesiod on Experience
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"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

Heine, Heinrich on Experience
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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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"Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship."

Gordimer, Nadine on Exile
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"The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner."

Calvino, Italo on Exile
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

Eliot, George on Experience
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"Who so loves believes the impossible."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Love
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"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Planning
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"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Fear
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Fear
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Assertiveness
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"I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Self discovery
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Character
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Critics and Criticism
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"Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Mistakes
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"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Life and Living
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on Action
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"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Bard, Carl on Beginning
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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