"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye"

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on death   

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu on attachment
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on conversation   

"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on absence
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"We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on behavior   

"Weak people cannot be sincere."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on sincerity
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"It is better to receive than to do injury."

Cicero, Marcus T. on vengeance   

"The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on modesty
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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on motivation   

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"Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense."

Cicero, Marcus T. on punishment   

"As you have sown so shall you reap."

Cicero, Marcus T. on results
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"When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on peace
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"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on possibilities   

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."

Euripides on friends and friendship
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"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on happiness
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on fools and foolishness
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on eloquence
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"Man is a being in search of meaning."

Plato on humankind
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"Don't overestimate the decency of the human race."

Mencken, H. L. on decency
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"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."

Mencken, H. L. on evolution
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"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance."

Midler, Bette on art
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"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on happiness
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

Dickinson, Emily on art
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"Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use."

Castaneda, Carlos on art
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"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something."

Buscaglia, Leo on change
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"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on beauty
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"Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on christians and christianity   

"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on wisdom
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"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

Tan, Amy on attitude
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on present
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"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on purpose
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"We lost because we told ourselves we lost."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on attitude
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on love
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"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on greatness
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