"goodbye happiness. hello depression."

Unknown on depression   

"Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile."

Guest, Judith on depression
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"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."

Rohn, Jim on leadership
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"Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on leadership
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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."

Austin, Jane on books - reading
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"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on books - reading
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"Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library."

Rohn, Jim on books - reading
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."

Ball, Ivern on advice
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"A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends."

Connolly, Cyril on laziness
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"The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in."

Brisbane, Arthur on cemeteries
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"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on problems
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"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on friends and friendship
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"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Bach, Richard on farewells
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"You are either part of the solution or part of the problem."

Cleaver, Eldridge on choice
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"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on labor