"We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt."

Laing, R. D. on alienation   

"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."

Laing, R. D. on love
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"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."

Landon, Michael on action
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"It is more important to be of service than successful."

Kennedy Jr., Robert on success   

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."

Kennedy, Robert F. on failure
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"Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies."

Kennedy, Robert F. on change
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"Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence."

Kennedy, Robert F. on courage
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"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it."

Kennedy, Robert F. on
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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

Kennedy, John F. on effort
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"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."

Kennedy, John F. on expectation
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"True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope."

Kennedy, John F. on happiness
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"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."

Kennedy, John F. on risk
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"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

Kennedy, John F. on time
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"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."

Kennedy, John F. on truth   

"According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on evil
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"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on greatness
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

King Jr. Martin Luther on ignorance
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"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."

King Jr. Martin Luther on mind
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"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

King Jr. Martin Luther on progress
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

King Jr. Martin Luther on reality
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"Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners."

Stewart, Jimmy on audiences
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"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on art   

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on potential
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"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on purpose
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"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on purpose   

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on public   

"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on purpose
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"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on reason   

"If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on questions
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"To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on purpose