"There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow."

Brande, Dorothea on happiness   

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."

Swift, Jonathan on shame
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"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."

Seneca on gifts   

"One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation."

Bright, Tony on expectation
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"I am a part of all that I have met."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on life
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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

Kaunda, Kenneth on ambition
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"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."

Asch, Sholem on memory
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"To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach."

Demosthenes on gratitude   

"We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described."

Thoreau, Henry David on influence
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"It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to."

Barnes, Sondra Anice on choice
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"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."

Laing, R. D. on madness
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"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim."

Oates, Joyce Carol on women
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"The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable."

Bhagavad Gita on body
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"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."

Huxley, Aldous on body   

"Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body."

Szasz, Thomas on body   

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

Woolf, Virginia on circumstance
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"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget."

Didion, Joan on memory
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"What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us."

Proust, Marcel on things and little things   

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things."

Barton, Bruce on things and little things   

"The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil."

Proverb, Arabian on evil
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"Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle."

Masai, J. on feelings
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"The heart will break, but broken live on."

Byron, Lord on art
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"To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place."

Haracourt, Edmond on death
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"Partir, c'est mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.)"

Proverb, French on farewells
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"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on selfishness
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"We are on the other end of our own leash"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"Time is all around in shrouds of endless goals, fast for happy hearts and slow for tortured souls"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"We are born anew within every strangers' eye"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

Jung, Carl on torture
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"I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure."

Sade, Marquis De on torture
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"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."

Brookner, Anita on charm
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"It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

Wilde, Oscar on charm
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"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble."

Franklin, Benjamin on insults
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"No good deed goes unpunished."

Boothe Luce, Clare on pessimism
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"When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score."

Powell, John Enoch on emotions
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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

Keats, John on depression
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"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."

Thoreau, Henry David on sin
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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on enemies
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