"I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it."

Adams, Bryan on adversity   

"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."

Adams, Bryan on thoughts and thinking
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage 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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"How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart."

Bowen, Elizabeth on absence
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"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."

Cibber, Colley on absence
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

Cowper, William on absence
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"Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on leadership
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"Our first and last love is... self-love."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on love
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"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

Brown, Les on love
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"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."

DiFranco, Ani on love
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"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."

Disney, Walt on love
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"Do not wish to be anything except what you are."

Francis De Sales, St. on love
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"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always."

Unknown, Source on beginning
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"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin."

Unknown, Source on beginning
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Lao-Tzu on beginning
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"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

L'Amour, Louis on beginning
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"All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."

Kennedy, John F. on beginning   

"The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching."

Kenko, Yoshida on beginning   

"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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"If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works."

Hay, Louise L. on love
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!"

James, William on love
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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

Bernard, Dorothy on courage
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"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared."

Ben-Gurion, David on courage
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"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

Barton, Bruce on courage
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"We must travel in the direction of our fear."

Berryman, John on fear
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"Fear is met and destroyed with courage."

Bell, James F. on fear
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"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."

Bacon, Francis on fear
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"Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it."

Ashe, Arthur on fear
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"Learn what you are and be such."

Pindar on love   

"Be that self which one truly is."

Kierkegaard, Søren on love
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"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."

Maltz, Maxwell on love
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"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."

Brownlow, Leroy on silence
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