"America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."

Clemenceau, Georges on america
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"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

Devlin, Bernadette on sacrifice
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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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"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on survival   

"The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music."

Shaftesbury, Lord on truth
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"Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment."

Collier, Robert on desire
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"The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak."

Charell, Ralph on self-talk
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"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts."

Hill, Napoleon on imagination
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"One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist."

Durkheim, Emile on contemplation   

"Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things."

Confucius on faith
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"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."

Confucius on ignorance
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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Confucius on knowledge
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on motivation
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"Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment."

Keyes Jr., Ken on oneness   

"Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality."

Gardner, John W. on self-pity
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"Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source."

Tzu, Lao on loss
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"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

Thoreau, Henry David on regret   

"However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is --in other words, not a thing, but a think."

Fitzgerald, Penelope on perception
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"Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth."

Hamilton, Edith on humankind   

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

Rohn, Jim on planning
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"When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to."

Rowland, Helen on divorce   

"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."

Kerr, Jean on divorce   

"Divorce is the sacrament of adultery."

Proverb, French on divorce
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"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."

Diderot, Denis on divorce   

"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."

Walcott, Derek on quarrels
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"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on astrology
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"You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child."

Dogen on children
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on loyalty
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"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

Unknown, Source on age and aging
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"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."

Emery, Stewart on ask
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"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on life
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Boese, Paul on forgiveness
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"Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on anger
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"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"

Shaw, George Bernard on forgiveness
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"My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."

Wilde, Oscar on individuality
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"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you."

Arthur, William on courage
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"Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness."

Augsburger, David on mistakes
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"Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals."

Lasch, Christopher on women