"The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray."

Gogh, Vincent Van on sea
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"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."

Howe, Edgar Watson on laughter
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"Life itself is the proper binge."

Child, Julia on life   

"Nothing will work unless you do."

Wooden, John on attitude
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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on abundance
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"The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation."

Goldsmith, Oliver on life
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"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

Goldsmith, Oliver on travel
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"Doubt can only be removed by action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on direction
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"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on destiny
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before."

Unknown, Source on abuse
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"Liberty consists in wholesome restraint."

Webster, Daniel on liberty
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"I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

Washington, Booker T. on hatred
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."

Confucius on growth
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

Ginsberg, Allen on insanity
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"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

Twain, Mark on insanity
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"There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity."

White, William Allen on insanity
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"Its Thursday or as i like to call it Thirstday, be thirsty & attack your goals. Wake up thirsty 4 success, success is running like water time to quench your thirst."

Jvongard on thursday   

"Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without."

Krutch, Joseph Wood on security
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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."

Seneca on failure
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"There is nothing assured to mortals."

Horace on security   

"No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"The best answer to anger is silence."

Unknown, Source on anger   

"The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over."

Unknown, Source on anger   

"The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world."

Walpole, Sir Hugh on anger   

"Depression is rage spread thin."

Tillich, Paul on anger
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"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Lincoln, Abraham on silence
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"You never realize how short a month is until you have to pay alimony."

Barrymore, John on diversity   

"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up."

Jackson, Jesse on pride
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

Thoreau, Henry David on time
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"Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy."

Unknown, Source on anger