"Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on self-interest   

"Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate."

Pratt, David on friends and friendship
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"What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover."

Symons, Arthur on criticism   

"The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves."

Camus, Albert on love
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"Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross."

Kempis, Thomas on work   

"I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them."

Satir, Virginia on love
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"We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to."

Davis, Bette on fame
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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

Rogers, Kenny on ambition
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"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

Nash, Ogden on wages   

"There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes."

Who, Dr. on children   

"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy."

Unknown, Source on ignorance   

"It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it."

Thackeray, William M. on faith   

"Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

Marx, Groucho on poverty and the poor   

"Always hold your head up but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."

Forman, Max L. on conceit
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"The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore."

Byron, Lord on cries and crying   

"I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners."

Paglia, Camille on jesus christ   

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

Parton, Dolly on nature   

"It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong."

Tiorio on right and rightness   

"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."

Mizner, Wilson on behavior   

"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up."

Irons, Jeremy on acting and actors
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"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."

Kerr, Jean on averages   

"I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone."

Armour, Richard on suffering   

"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."

Wesley, John on books - reading
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"When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel."

Weitz, John on dress
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"In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside."

Kennedy, John F. on effort
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"How are you ever going to stop being weary until you've made your mind up to be strong."

Praise, Endless on mind   

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up."

Bush, Barbara on marriage   

"It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."

Shaw, George Bernard on youth   

"There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES."

Aesop on enemies
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"I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on adversity
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"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]"

Bible on marriage
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"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."

Perot, H. Ross on action
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"You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back."

English, Jon on choice
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"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self."

Fenwick, Millicent on self-pity   

"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."

Schulz, Charles M. on blame
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"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."

Burnett, Leo on dream
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"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes."

Baxter, Anne on failure
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"I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up."

Bishop, Russell on parents and parenting
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