"When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge."

Kupferberg, Tuli on ideas   

"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on sorrow
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"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."

Epicurus on masses
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"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on fate   

"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on love
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

Rougamont, Denis De on acceptance
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Gandhi, Mahatma on dictators and dictatorship
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"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on belief
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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

Browning, Robert on autumn   

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"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."

Bejar, Hada on beauty
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"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Francis, Brendan on acceptance
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"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Berra, Yogi on crowds
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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

Gibran, Kahlil on the future
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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"If you would live innocently, seek solitude."

Syrus, Publilius on innocence
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"Friendship needs no words..."

Hammarskjold, Dag on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Friendship should be more than biting time can sever."

Eliot, T. S. on friends and friendship
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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on questions
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"Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity."

Pindar on beauty
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"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful."

Sappho on beauty
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Keats, John on beauty
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"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow."

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie on courage
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is Love without his wings!"

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"The world is round so that friendship may encircle it."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on friends and friendship
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"Life is nothing without friendship."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on friends and friendship
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"Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy."

Bhagavad Gita on gratitude
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"A book worth reading is worth buying."

Ruskin, John on books - reading
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."

Twain, Mark on books - reading
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"The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading."

Mencken, H. L. on books - reading   

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

Thoreau, Henry David on books - reading
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day."

Dalai Lama on friends and friendship
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"There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read."

Mencken, H. L. on books - reading
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