"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."

Cherbuliez, Victor on luck
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"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains"

Cady, Emilie on adversity
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"All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it."

Collier, Robert on luck
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"You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought."

Holmes, Marjorie on action
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"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."

Davies, Robertson on cats
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"Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their evil look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it."

Paglia, Camille on cats   

"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter."

Carroll, Lewis on goals
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"Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland."

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von on cats
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"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion."

Malcolm X on freedom   

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

Paine, Thomas on religion   

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"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."

Paine, Thomas on churches   

"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves."

Thant, U. on self-esteem
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"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."

Gracian, Baltasar on self-esteem
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"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

Herschel, Sir John on respectability
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"Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves."

Lindsay, Bryan on goals   

"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about."

Whorf, Benjamin Lee on language
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"If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep."

Proverb, Yiddish on dream
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"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

Dickens, Charles on gratitude
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"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De on kindness
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"Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting."

Meltzer, Bernard on giving
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"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. "

Bible on uncategorised
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"The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend."

Ward, Arch on friends and friendship
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"Too humble is half proud."

Proverb, Yiddish on humility
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"He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral."

Proverb, Yiddish on inheritance   

"All of us are crazy in one way or another."

Proverb, Yiddish on insanity
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"In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want."

Toast, Irish on friends and friendship   

"If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can."

Proverb, Yiddish on power
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"A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny."

Proverb, Yiddish on wealth
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"Charm is more than beauty."

Proverb, Yiddish on charm
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"God gave burdens, also shoulders."

Proverb, Yiddish on burdens
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"Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold."

Proverb, Yiddish on luck
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"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

Lowell, James Russell on character   

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Wharton, Edith on giving
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."

Adams, Bryan on thoughts and thinking
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"Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic."

Stevens, Wallace on thoughts and thinking   

"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."

Allen, James on thoughts and thinking
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"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

Allen, James on thoughts and thinking
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"You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are."

Arrington, Eva on thoughts and thinking
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"Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom."

Keller, Helen on success