"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."

Delillo, Don on rain
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"I want to be great, something special."

Leonard, Sugar Ray on greatness   

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

Bergman, Ingrid on kisses and kissing
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"I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you."

Smith, Byron Caldwell on kisses and kissing
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"The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way."

Alan, Robert on kindness
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"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."

Johnson, Samuel on kindness   

"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."

Abbott, John on knowledge
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"Knowledge is power."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause."

Dryden, John on kings   

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

Anthony, Dr. Robert on belief
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"It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it."

Amos, Wally on belief
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"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin."

Unknown, Source on beginning
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"Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something."

Unknown, Source on beginning
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"The beginning is the half of every action."

Proverb, Greek on beginning
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"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."

Baker, Ivy 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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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"Exuberance is beauty."

Blake, William on beauty
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"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."

Franklin, Benjamin on anxiety
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"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

Bach, Richard on belief
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"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."

Barker, Joel A. on belief
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"Good things, when short, are twice as good."

Gracian, Baltasar on brevity
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"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."

Billings, Josh on brevity
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"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great."

Lucan, F. L. on boldness   

"When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty."

Gregory The Great, St. on blush
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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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"I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute."

Buffett, Warren on belief
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"Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve."

Brown, Les on belief
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"Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

Barrie, Sir James M. on belief
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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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"If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone."

Oakley, Ann on love
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"Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment."

Otway, Thomas on ambition
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"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

Eliot, George on ambition
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"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

Danielson, C. Archie on ambition
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"Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money."

Bardwick, Judith M. on ambition
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"That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means."

Camus, Albert on ambiguity
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"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true."

Ringer, Robert J. on truth
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