"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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"Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character."

Delacroix, Eugene on conversation
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"Eternity -- waste of time."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on eternity
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"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on faces
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"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"

Barney, Natalie Clifford on possessions
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"There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on reality   

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on youth
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"The heart will break, but broken live on."

Byron, Lord on art
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on assertiveness
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"The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others."

Bower, Sharon Anthony on assertiveness
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"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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"The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values. Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one."

Oakley, Ann on myth
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"The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship."

Armesto, Raul on choice
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"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road -- the one less traveled by -- offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth."

Carson, Rachel on choice
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"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on choice
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"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."

Frankl, Viktor E. on choice
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"He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear."

Proverb on fear
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"Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance."

Poe, Edgar Allan on memory
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"Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last."

Poe, Edgar Allan on death
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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."

Poe, Edgar Allan on animals
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