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"Good is not good, when better is expected."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation
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"You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones."

Anderson, Greg on emotions
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"One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others."

Moliere on criticism
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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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"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on anticipation    Share

"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on passion
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"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

Dyer, Wayne on choice
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"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."

Eliot, George on purpose    Share

"And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on silence    Share

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

Rohn, Jim on planning
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"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

Bombeck, Erma on courage
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"Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on punishment
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning."

Unknown, Source on communication
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"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."

Duffecy, James on music
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"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."

Robbins, Anthony on communication
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"The one who loves least controls the relationship."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."

Bentley, Timothy on attitude
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"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on sarcasm
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"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love."

Freud, Sigmund on love
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"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."

Dryden, John on love
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on action
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"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Meltzer, Bernard on giving
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"People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all."

Unknown, Source on change
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"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

Dyer, Wayne on writers and writing
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"Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts."

Bhagavad Gita on doubt
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"If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place."

Bellin, Gita on change
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on apologies
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"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."

Weil, Simone on justice
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"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

Seneca on hatred
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"No man is hurt but by himself"

Diogenes of Sinope on conflict
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on hope
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"If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting."

Vermeil, Dick on commitment    Share

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

Wordsworth, William on nature
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"Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love."

Reik, Theodor 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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"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

Greer, Germaine on security
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