"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

James, Henry on kindness
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"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."

James, Henry on judgment and judges
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"Deep experience is never peaceful."

James, Henry on experience   

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"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

Gordimer, Nadine on truth   

"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."

Gordimer, Nadine on sacrifice   

"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on fights and fighting
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

Kafka, Franz on understanding
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"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind "

Morrison, Toni on friends and friendship
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"When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same."

Morrison, Toni on pain
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"Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one."

Lee, Robert E. on friends and friendship
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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"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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"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on equality
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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on duty
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."

Viscott, David on affirmation
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus on affirmation
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"Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Patience means self-suffering."

Gandhi, Mahatma on patience
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"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy"

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes."

Wilde, Oscar on compliments
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"All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means."

Collier, Robert on desire   

"It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it."

Collier, Robert on desire
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"All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it."

Collier, Robert on luck
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"Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."

Bierce, Ambrose on compromise   

"When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good."

Colton, Charles Caleb on compliments   

"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."

Bible on compliments   

"See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession."

Collier, Robert on imagination
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on affection
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"Better bend than break."

Proverb, Scottish on compromise   

"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves."

Collier, Robert on environment
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"You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving -- and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it -- and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return."

Collier, Robert on giving