"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on happiness
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"The tighter you squeeze, the less you have."

Saying, Zen on attachment   

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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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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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Beauvoir, Simone De on change
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"Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

Bennett, Arnold on change
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"Change is difficult but often essential to survival."

Brown, Les on change
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Darrow, Clarence on change
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"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on change
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"Chords that were broken will vibrate once more."

Crosby, Fanny on change
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"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right."

Confucius on change
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"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

Clark, Karen Kaiser on change
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

Pancoast, Mal on truth
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"Understanding brings control."

Bonewitz on understanding
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"If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on understanding
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"I started out with nothing. I still have most of it."

Davis, Michael on understanding
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"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding
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"I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence."

Rostand, Jean on understanding   

"Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath."

Swift, Jonathan on understanding   

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"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on understanding
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle 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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"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Meltzer, Bernard on giving
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"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"All great achievements require time."

Schwartz, David J. on perseverance
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"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."

Maltz, Maxwell on obstacles
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"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

Kettering, Charles F. on achievement
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"The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing."

Unknown, Source on ending
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on goals
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"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."

Kerr, Jean on hope
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"To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man."

Euripides on perseverance
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"If you wish to be a leader you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant you will never be frustrated."

Warren, Frank F. on service
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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."

Balzac, Honore De on acceptance
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"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

Flaubert, Gustave on courage   

"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

Blake, William on love
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"Depression is rage spread thin."

Tillich, Paul on anger
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"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."

Carrel, Alexis on suffering
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