"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on happiness
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"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

King Jr. Martin Luther on extremes and extremists
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"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Dickinson, Emily on beauty
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"It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome."

Conrad, Joseph on life
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"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."

Baruch, Bernard M. on ask
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"The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible."

Mencken, H. L. on incredulity   

"This instant is the only time there is."

A Course In Miracles on present
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"To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on purity   

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

Auden, W. H. on humor
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"Repeticio est mater studiorum. Repetition is the mother of all learning."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on education
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

Cervantes, Miguel De on aid and assistance
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deeds and good deeds
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"Love can do much, but duty more."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on duty   

"He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on egotism
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"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fear
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"There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person."

Austen, Jane on reserve
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"There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day."

Camus, Albert on judgment and judges
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"The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor..."

Collier, Robert on obstacles
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"You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door."

Collier, Robert on opportunity   

"Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing..."

Collier, Robert on vision   

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."

Confucius on ignorance
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"Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness."

Confucius on kindness
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"To love a thing means wanting it to live."

Confucius on love
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"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

Confucius on love
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on motivation
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"To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle."

Confucius on perception
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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

Confucius on friends and friendship
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."

Confucius on example
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"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."

Aristotle on happiness   

"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools."

Confucius on diligence
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"Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on fear
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"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on power
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"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on reason
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"Happiness is activity."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius on revenge
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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