"Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life."

Alinsky, Saul on corruption   

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

Gesser on adversity
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

Ford, Henry on adversity
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"Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul."

Ford, Elias A. on adversity
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"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."

Collins, Kitty O'neill on adversity
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"The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away."

Cowper, William on hope
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"The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong."

Mizner, Wilson on anger
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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"The doors of wisdom are never shut."

Franklin, Benjamin on wisdom
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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."

Franklin, Benjamin on time
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"So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last."

Franklin, Benjamin on business   

"When you're finished changing, you're finished."

Franklin, Benjamin on change
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"If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time."

Franklin, Benjamin on business   

"He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"Let thy discontents be thy secrets."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on hope
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

Bacon, Francis on adaptability
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on love
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"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

Aurelius, Marcus on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."

Robbins, Anthony on failure
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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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"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German on adaptability
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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"When you're through changing, you're through."

Barton, Bruce on change
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing."

Astor, Lady Nancy on change
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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