"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party."

Keats, John on opinions   

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

Frost, Robert on life
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"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."

Frost, Robert on secrets
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

Gandhi, Mahatma on indolence
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"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-control
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"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."

Ellis, Havelock on dance and dancing
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"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on dance and dancing
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"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Gibran, Kahlil on nature
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?"

Gibran, Kahlil on potential
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"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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"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation."

Hugo, Victor on absence
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"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on absence
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark on exercise
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"What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it."

Twain, Mark on growth
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"Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart."

Augustine, St. on soul   

"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."

Diderot, Denis on passion
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"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."

Diderot, Denis on passion
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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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"“ 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 messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love. ” "

Washington Irving on emotional
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits."

Sheen, Bishop Fulton J. on emotions
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"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

Williams, Tennessee on loneliness
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"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."

Porchia, Antonio on art
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