"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

Anderson, Walter on risk
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"Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose."

Proverb, Turkish on humankind
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"Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up."

Unknown, Source on obstacles
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."

Jagger, Mick on experience
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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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"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say."

Unknown, Source on writers and writing
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"The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart."

Redpath, Alan on dedication
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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on love
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"We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other."

Unknown, Source on angels
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"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"Extremists think communication means agreeing with them."

Rosten, Leo on communication   

"The one thing that matters is the effort."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on effort
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on faith
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"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on life
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"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on love
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"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

Waitley, Denis on parents and parenting
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"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

Schuller, Robert H. on problems
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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. In the end, it is between you and HIM not you and them."

Mother Teresa on
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

Bernstein, Al on beauty
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"It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."

Thurber, James on questions
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"Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or highroad to the soul's destination."

Campbell, Joseph on peace
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"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."

Keller, Helen on opportunity
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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

Harris, Sidney J. on regret
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"One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it."

Howard, Sidney on sacrifice
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"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Frost, Robert on communication
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"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."

Robbins, Anthony on life   

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

Robbins, Anthony on failure   

"The only journey is the one within."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on success
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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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"I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret."

Robbins, Anthony on commitment
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"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Bach, Richard on farewells
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

Carter, Hodding on inheritance
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"Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."

Unknown, Source on vision
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"Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true."

Unknown, Source on happiness
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Angelis, Barbara De on adversity
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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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