"We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often."

Churchill, Winston on anxiety
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"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount."

Churchill, Winston on dictators and dictatorship
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"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."

Churchill, Winston on defeat
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"They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

Churchill, Winston on decisions
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"So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today"

christ, jesus on jesus
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"Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or highroad to the soul's destination."

Campbell, Joseph on peace
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"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."

Campbell, Joseph on possibilities   

"If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else."

Campbell, Joseph on passion
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"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths."

Campbell, Joseph on myth
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"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive."

Campbell, Joseph on life
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

Churchill, Winston on dogs
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

Churchill, Winston on learning
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"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

Churchill, Winston on grammar
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"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"

Churchill, Winston on fear
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"Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried."

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"Nothing can come of nothing."

Shakespeare, William on effort
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"Good counselors lack no clients."

Shakespeare, William on experts
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"Men at sometime are the masters of their fate."

Shakespeare, William on fate
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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings."

Shakespeare, William on fate
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"There is tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries; on such a full sea we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures."

Shakespeare, William on fate   

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]"

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on adversity   

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

Thoreau, Henry David on faith
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"Being is the great explainer."

Thoreau, Henry David on existence
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."

Thoreau, Henry David on doubt
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"If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?"

Thoreau, Henry David on desire
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"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

Thoreau, Henry David on deeds and good deeds
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

Hubbard, Elbert on criticism
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on love
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