"Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."

Tracy, Brian on decisions
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"If you're already in a hole, it's no use to continue digging."

Walters, Roy W. on decisions   

"The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny."

Speakman, Frederick on decisions
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"Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out."

Girad, Sir on decisions
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"Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?"

Canetti, Elias on decisions
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"We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on decisions
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"Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty."

Becquerel, Henri on decisions   

"We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow."

Westover, Jonathan on decisions   

"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."

Maurois, Andre on marriage
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"Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on marriage
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"It takes two to destroy a marriage."

Trudeau, Margaret on divorce   

"Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate."

Rainey, Dennis on marriage   

"A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."

Burroughs, John on blame
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"A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth."

Lao-Tzu on growth
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"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu on attachment
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"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."

Stone, W. Clement on truth
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"The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth."

Hesse, Hermann on truth
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"Events are influenced by our very great desires."

James, William on desire
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"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

Proust, Marcel on desire
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"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on desire
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"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Stael, Germaine De on desire
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"For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality."

Branden, Nathaniel on pleasure
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"The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period."

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl) on truth
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"Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic."

Murdoch, Iris on moralists
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"Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire."

Proverb on desire   

"What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire."

Proverb on eyes
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"In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace."

Hecht, Ben on peace
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"Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth."

Phaedrus on lies and lying
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"When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies."

Unknown, Source on lies and lying
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"Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie."

Unknown, Source on lies and lying   

"In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on lies and lying   

"A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie."

Montague, C. E. on lies and lying   

"By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man."

Kant, Immanuel on lies and lying
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"In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."

Greene, Graham on lies and lying
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"If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it."

Franklin, Billy Boy on lies and lying
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"A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable."

Dunne, Finley Peter on lies and lying
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"A liar is full of oaths."

Corneille, Pierre on lies and lying
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

Stendhal, Henri B. on love
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