"We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other."

Freud, Sigmund on suffering
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"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."

Kafka, Franz on suffering
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"Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise."

Orwell, George on suffering
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"This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this."

Brown, Charlie on depression
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"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."

Brown, Les on goals
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"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

Hill, Napoleon on belief
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"Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence."

Tikkanen, Henrik on intelligence and intellectuals
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"To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster."

Moss, Stirling on risk   

"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."

Douglas, Mack R. on commitment
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Hill, Napoleon on sacrifice
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"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

Ford, Henry on mistakes
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"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."

Stein, Ben on cooperation
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"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."

Meltzer, Bernard on happiness
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"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."

Ovid on achievement
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"Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations."

Robert, Cavett on limitation
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"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements."

Marden, Orison Swett on price
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"A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective."

Argenti, John on planning   

"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."

Fromme, Dr. Allan on work
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"If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances."

Salazar, Alberto on risk
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"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love."

Bellow, Saul on goodness
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"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."

Brown, Les on change
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"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you."

Pirandello, Luigi on relationship   

"Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe."

Augustine, St. on faith
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"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner."

Lombardi, Vince on faith
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"At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation."

Lucado, Max L. on faith
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"Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind."

Godospeed, Edgar on friends and friendship
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

Allen, George on perseverance
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"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."

Freud, Sigmund on normality
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"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage
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"The only reward of virtue is virtue."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."

Gandhi, Indira on forgiveness
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"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Bard, Carl on beginning
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"Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you have a chance to start over, to say, do, think, or feel something in such a way that you and the world are better for it."

Unknown, Source on opportunity   

"When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page."

Caddy, Eileen on opportunity
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"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."

Lasorda, Tommy on pressure
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"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

Evenus on action
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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

Bacon, Francis on adaptability
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other."

Macarthur, Douglas on courage
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