"Tell the truth and shame the devil."

Rabelais, Francois on truth   

"Goodness is the only investment which never fails."

Thoreau, Henry David on goodness
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"Nothing leads to good that is not natural."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on goodness   

"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on goodness   

"Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts"

Proverb, Tibetan on goodness
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"There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn."

Proverb, Chinese on goodness
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"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

Orwell, George on goodness
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"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."

Angelou, Maya on love
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"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."

Corneille, Pierre on anger
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"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

Twain, Mark on anger
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"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice   

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."

Masson, Thomas L. on advice   

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never."

Wolfe, Thomas on anger   

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha on anger
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"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting."

Wallenda, Karl on anger   

"Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't."

Unknown, Source on anger   

"One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard."

Syrus, Publilius on anger   

"We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger."

Swing, Raymond G. on anger   

"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."

Shaw, George Bernard on anger   

"Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south."

Shakespeare, William on anger   

"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."

Shakespeare, William on anger   

"Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them."

Seneca on anger   

"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."

Fowler, Gene on advice
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"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

Fowler, Gene on writers and writing
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"Be yourself, who else is better qualified?"

Giblin, Frank J. on individuality   

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus on affirmation
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"My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -- and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain."

Robbins, Anthony on success   

"It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean."

Robbins, Anthony on circumstance
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"We are exactly where we have chosen to be."

Howard, Vernon on circumstance   

"Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door."

Howard, Vernon on honesty   

"Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life."

Friedan, Betty on children
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"It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all."

Friedan, Betty on competition   

"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on competition
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"Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love"

Turner, Rev. Dale on love
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"It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true."

Browning, Robert on sincerity
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"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."

Santayana, George on friends and friendship
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance."

Fowler, C. H. on chance   

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"Wise people say nothing in dangerous times."

Selden, John on anger