"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

Tagore, Rabindranath on Adventure
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"What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world."

Rimbaud, Arthur on Life and Living
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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on Attitude
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"Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read."

Unknown, Source on Books - Reading
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"It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy."

Aristotle on Courage
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on Empire
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"No man knows less than the man who knows it all"

Unknown, Source on Knowledge
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"Every man dies. Not every man really lives. [In the movie Braveheart]"

Wallace, William on Death and Dying
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"The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool."

Garbutt, Frank on Wisdom
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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

Seneca on Appreciation
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"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

Harris, Sidney J. on Anger
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on Anger
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"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy."

Johnson, Samuel on Belief
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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on Action
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"There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy."

Moore, Frankfort on Enemies
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on Dreams
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"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on Ideals and Idealism
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"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."

Allen, James on Desire
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help."

Fuller, Thomas on Anger
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"Big thinking precedes great achievement."

Peterson, Wilferd A. on Dreams
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on Work
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