"If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you."

Wilder, Billy on truth
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"One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself."

Bristol, Claude M. on knowledge   

"Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings."

Madwed, Sidney on thoughts and thinking
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"Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind."

Madwed, Sidney on mind   

"It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts."

Madwed, Sidney on idleness   

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

Twain, Mark on truth
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"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

Ball, Lucille on age and aging
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Borge, Victor on laughter
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"You can fake an orgasm, but you can't fake laughter."

Dylan, Bob on laughter   

"Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you."

Bristol, Claude M. on cooperation   

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

Bristol, Claude M. on affirmation
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"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."

Bristol, Claude M. on obstacles
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"When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them"

Roberts, Jane on affirmation
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"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives."

Madwed, Sidney on affirmation
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"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it."

Epictetus on criticism
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Epictetus on attitude
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"God hath entrusted me with myself."

Epictetus on god
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"For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship."

Epictetus on fear
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"No man is free who is not a master of himself."

Epictetus on freedom
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"Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind."

Bristol, Claude M. on affirmation
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"It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great."

Confucius on truth
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"You have your thought and I have mine. Your thought advocates Judaism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being. You have your thought and I have mine. Mine is the thought of him who is lost in his own country, of the alien in his own nation, of the solitary among his kinfolk and friends."

Gibran, Kahlil on thought   

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."

Gibran, Kahlil on children
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"People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves."

Brouhours on misfortunes
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"Great intellects are skeptical."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on skepticism
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"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best."

Zappa, Frank on
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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Zappa, Frank on time
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"So wie die Verruecktheit in einem hoeheren Sinn, der Anfang aller Weisheit ist, so ist die Schizophrenie der Anfang aller Kunst, aller Phantasie. (As insanity in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom, so is schizophrenia the beginning of all art, all fantasy.)"

Hesse, Hermann on art   

"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."

Hesse, Hermann on home
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"We have inherited the past; we can create the future."

Unknown, Source on the future
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"If you've never failed you've never tried."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Do not fear mistakes -- there are none."

Davis, Miles on mistakes
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"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

Hendrix, Jimi on death
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"A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success."

Unknown, Source on courage
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"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

Lee, Bruce on truth