"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper."

Carlyle, Thomas on humor   

"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."

Dyer, Wayne on ignorance
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"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."

Carlyle, Thomas on imagination   

"Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being."

Chopra, Deepak on silence
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"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on love
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"You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on pleasure
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"We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have crossed bridges in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."

Library, Speakers on imagination   

"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on art   

"If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown."

Carlyle, Thomas on enemies
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"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."

Burns, George on age and aging
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"Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present."

Lubbock, Sir John on affection
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"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

Ali, Muhammad on age and aging
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"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

Jung, Carl on adventure
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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

Dyer, Wayne on abundance
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"I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient."

Dyer, Wayne on growth
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"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."

Lao-Tzu on giving
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"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

Dyer, Wayne on happiness
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"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face."

Burke, Billie on age and aging
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"To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love."

Bonstettin on age and aging
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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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"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."

Fromm, Erich on existence
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"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."

Fromm, Erich on faith
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"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal."

Fromm, Erich on popularity   

"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"

Fromm, Erich on possessions
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"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."

Fromm, Erich on security
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"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much."

Fromm, Erich on charity
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"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

Fromm, Erich on creativity
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"When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!"

Alt, Carol on admiration
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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Arden, Elizabeth on age and aging
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"Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers."

Half, Robert on ask
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu on kindness
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"Courtship -- A man pursuing a woman until she catches him."

Unknown, Source on courtship   

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates."

Szasz, Thomas on creation   

"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."

Aldiss, Brian on creativity
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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

Cook, Mary Lou on creativity
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"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

Land, Edwin H. on creativity
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