"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."

Algren, Nelson on love
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Augustine, St. on love
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"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape."

Johnson, Samuel on birthdays   

"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."

Ashley, Elizabeth on love
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."

Adler, Alfred on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate."

James, William on candor   

"We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life."

James, William on habit
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"Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"Never permit failure to become a habit."

Book, William Frederick on habit
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"Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you."

Book, William Frederick on adaptability
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"The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned."

Book, William Frederick on work
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"To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil."

Johnson, Jeremy P. on evil   

"There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body."

Hazlitt, William on candor   

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

Orwell, George on candor
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"Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."

Orwell, George on achievement
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"Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened."

Orwell, George on writers and writing   

"The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either."

Bellow, Saul on poetry and poets   

"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

Bellow, Saul on evil
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"So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding
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"Teamwork: Never Doubt that a small group of thoughtful & committed people can change the world. It's the only thing that ever has over time."

Flanagan, Jerry on work
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"Sometimes, you have to stop thinking about the future, and just live your life today!"

Flanagan, Jerry on life   

"In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray."

Proverb, German on life
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"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on hope
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success."

Goldsmith, Oliver on hope
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"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on hope
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"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."

Bellow, Saul on writers and writing
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"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."

Bacon, Francis on hope
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt."

A Course In Miracles on choice
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"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Antrim, Minna on life
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"I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories."

Irving, Washington on writers and writing
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"I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money."

Brando, Marlon on obesity   

"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."

Brando, Marlon on privacy
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