"The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone"

Javan on praise
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"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Boese, Paul on forgiveness
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"The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action."

Marden, Orison Swett on forgiveness
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"Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at."

Sterne, Laurence on forgiveness
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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

Szasz, Thomas on forgiveness
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"Insanity is doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome."

Proverb, Chinese on insanity
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"The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust."

Proverb, Persian on memory
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"The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world."

Lewis, C. S. on evangelism
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"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence."

Mandino, Og on appreciation
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"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on love
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"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on love
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"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on life
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"We do not exist for ourselves..."

Merton, Thomas on cooperation
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"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another"

Merton, Thomas on passion   

"At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will."

Merton, Thomas on spirituality
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"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."

Merton, Thomas on responsibility
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"We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen."

Merton, Thomas on failure
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"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Shakespeare, William on ethics
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"No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."

Beecher, Henry Ward on present
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"At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on self-reliance
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"The only journey is the one within."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on success
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"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on comfort
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"Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!"

Jong, Erica on women   

"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on action   

"Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on uniqueness
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"Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."

Trotsky, Leon on causes
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"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on forgiveness
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fights and fighting
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"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fathers
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"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fanatics and fanaticism
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on education
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