"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on wisdom
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"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

Burnett, Carol on change
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"Change is difficult but often essential to survival."

Brown, Les on change
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"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

Branden, Nathaniel on change
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"Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death."

Borne, Ludwig on change
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"

Bergson, Henri L. on change
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"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend."

Akhenaton on anger
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"You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe."

Helmstetter, Shad on choice
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"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone."

Foster, Robert D. on prayer
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"Never permit failure to become a habit."

Book, William Frederick on habit
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"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

Rohn, Jim on pain
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"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law."

Buddha on hatred
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on vigilance
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"Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself."

Hubbard, Elbert on failure
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"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on truth
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

Saroyan, William on wisdom
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"Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present   

"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."

Waitley, Denis on effort
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."

Nair, Keshavan on courage
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"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."

Meltzer, Bernard on kisses and kissing
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"Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness."

May, Rollo on passion   

"Forgiveness is God's command."

Luther, Martin on forgiveness
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"He who has never hoped can never despair."

Shaw, George Bernard on hope
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"Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens."

Browne, Harry on security
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"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."

Macarthur, Douglas on freedom
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

Hull, Raymond on approval
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"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness
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"We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again."

Unknown, Source on sadness
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"Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life."

Durkheim, Emile on sadness
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"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

Burton, Sir Richard on friends and friendship
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"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on friends and friendship
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"Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

Jung, Carl on sadness
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