"Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?"

Unknown, Source on humor
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"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."

FeNelon, Francois on friends and friendship   

"Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness."

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De on sorrow
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Malcolm X on adversity
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"I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them."

Binoche, Juliette on tragedies   

"It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business."

Parker, Theodore on priorities   

"Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect."

Parker, Theodore on self-respect
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"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."

Parker, Theodore on books - reading   

"I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?"

Kennedy, Rose F. on trials
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on comfort
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"If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it."

Foreman, R. on kindness   

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer."

Browne, Harry on security   

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on freedom
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"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

Dryden, John on contentment
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"I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure."

Diana, Princess of Wales on security
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"Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God."

Peale, Norman Vincent on liberty   

"Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane."

Oakley, Ann on men   

"It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize."

Covey, Stephen R. on character
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"Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout"

Unknown, Source on life   

"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality."

Judd, H. Stanley on security
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"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without."

Krutch, Joseph Wood on security
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"I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong."

Rath, Dorothy H. on security   

"The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire."

Tracy, Brian on security
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"In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution."

Willkie, Wendell L. on security   

"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on feelings
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"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell."

Kingsley, Charles on feelings
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"Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined."

Tutko, Thomas on feelings
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"Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on fate
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"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."

Bowen, Elizabeth on fate
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"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on fate
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"Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth."

Proverb, Arabian on fate
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"Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future."

Unknown, Source on fate
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"One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched."

Bruyere, Jean De La on love   

"The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love   

"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

Murdoch, Iris on love
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"There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"I leave before being left. I decide."

Bardot, Brigitte on love
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