"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."

Fix, Paul on thoughts and thinking
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"Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in."

Haldeman, Harold Robbins on results
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"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."

Murdoch, Iris on survival   

"You create your opportunities by asking for them."

Hansen, Patty on ask   

"Variety is the soul of pleasure."

Behn, Aphra on variety   

"Energy and persistence alter all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on energy
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"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."

Billings, Josh on brevity
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on effort
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"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place."

Haracourt, Edmond on death
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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

Smith, Alexander on love
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"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

Disraeli, Benjamin on preparation
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"Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else."

Rothschild, William E. on humor
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"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)"

Movie, Wizard of Oz on love
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"It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

Ziglar, Zig on potential
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"Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."

Proverb, Chinese on patience
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"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on life
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"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

Allen, James on circumstance
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"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

Thoreau, Henry David on time
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"Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man."

Battista, Orlando A. on knowledge
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"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."

Buscaglia, Leo on choice
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"Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance."

Buscaglia, Leo on time
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"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."

Unknown on let go   

"When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses."

Russell, Walter on conflict   

"For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure..."

Gould, Gerald on sin   

"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on civilization   

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Croft, Roy on love
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"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't."

Wilson, Earl on gossip
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"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on courage   

"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks."

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von on inspiration
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"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain."

Nathan, Robert on beauty
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Bryan, William Jennings on destiny
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"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly."

Woolf, Virginia on quotations   

"To err is human; to admit it, superhuman."

Larson, Doug on mistakes
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"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."

Rohn, Jim on value
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"There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others."

Bruyere, Jean De La on getting ahead   

"What people need and what they want may be very different."

Hubbard, Elbert on conflict
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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Beecher, Henry Ward on worth
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"Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river."

Hull, Cordell on insults
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