"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."

Sun Tzu on strategies
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"If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place."

Bellin, Gita on change
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"Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

Bennett, Arnold on change
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"There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect."

Thoreau, Henry David on doubt
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"The heart is forever inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on emotions
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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on writers and writing
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"Life is like a grindstone -- whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of."

Unknown, Source on life
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"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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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

Ruskin, John on success
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"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."

Duras, Marguerite on men
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"Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate."

Angelis, Barbara De on men
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"A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction."

Aleichem, Sholom on men
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"When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!"

Unknown, Source on dream
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles on hope
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on hope
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on hope
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on hope
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."

Disney, Walt on entertainment
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"Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men."

Reik, Theodor on women
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"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other."

Miller, Henry on death
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"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly."

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

Eliot, George on adversity
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"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."

Eliot, George on age and aging   

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

Eliot, George on age and aging   

"How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a resignation which is chiefly supported by comparison."

Eliot, George on decisions   

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

Eliot, George on deeds and good deeds
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"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

Eliot, George on deeds and good deeds
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"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

Eliot, George on despair
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"To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy."

Eliot, George on diplomacy   

"The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender."

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"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."

Smiles, Samuel on adversity
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"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."

Smiles, Samuel on desire
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"The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."

Smiles, Samuel on difficulties
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"The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve."

Smiles, Samuel on difficulties   

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"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted."

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"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action."

Smiles, Samuel on enthusiasm
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