"Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain."

Brodie, Fawn M. on teacher   

"If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be."

Collier, Robert on wealth
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"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."

Unknown, Source on adulthood
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"If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream."

Brown, Les on desire
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"Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Proverbs 22:6]"

Bible on education
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"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."

Maugham, W. Somerset on effort   

"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."

Lowell, James Russell on gratitude
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"?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

Paulus, Trina on risk
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"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust."

Ullman, Samuel on age and aging   

"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."

Seferis, Giorgos on books - reading
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"That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love."

Magheburg, Mechthild of on prayer
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"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Fitzgerald, Ella on failure
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell."

Murchison, Jr., Clint on money
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"God is closest to those with broken hearts."

Proverb, Jewish on god   

"Enemies promises were made to be broken."

Aesop on enemies
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"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."

Disraeli, Benjamin on law and lawyers   

"The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken."

Johnson, Samuel on habit
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"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."

Ovid on worry   

"A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was."

Hall, Joseph on reputation
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"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers."

Chopra, Deepak on art
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"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart."

Watson, Thomas J. on business
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"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

Edgeworth, Maria on confidence
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"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

Hope, Bob on charity
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"Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others."

Strait, C. Neil on life
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"God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf."

Brooks, Thomas on god
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"Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?"

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?"

Marden, Orison Swett on poverty and the poor   

"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."

Pascal, Blaise on faith
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"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love"

Mother Teresa on joy
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"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."

Hare, David on art
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"I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible."

Maistre, Joseph De on art   

"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life."

Bremer, Frederika on words
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"The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world."

Grable, Betty on women
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"Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us."

Miller, Henry on taboos
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"People say I'm around because I have a lot of heart, but I know all the heart in the world couldn't have helped me if I wasn't physically fit."

Connors, Jimmy on training   

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens."

Woolf, Virginia on innocence
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"Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge."

Blake, William on humankind
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"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

Homer on adversity
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