"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love"

Mother Teresa on joy
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"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on equality
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"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

Barrie, Sir James M. on joy
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex."

Rubin, Jerry on men
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"Life is a long lesson in humility."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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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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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on evil
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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."

Ballard, J. G. on technology   

"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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"Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

Barrie, Sir James M. on belief
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

Mother Teresa on action
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"Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other."

Mother Teresa on smile
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"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."

Mother Teresa on peace
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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love"

Mother Teresa on love
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"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love."

Francis of Assisi, St. on peace
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"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."

Francis of Assisi, St. on love
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"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."

Francis of Assisi, St. on injury
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"For it is in giving that we receive."

Francis of Assisi, St. on giving
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"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."

Francis of Assisi, St. on forgiveness
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"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that."

Barrie, Sir James M. on achievement
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"There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on age and aging
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"We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race."

Naisbitt, John on technology
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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."

Brand, Stewart on technology
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"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."

Frisch, Max on technology
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"You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself."

Barrymore, Ethel on laughter
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"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."

Lardner, Ring on family
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"An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve."

Lardner, Ring on optimism
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"I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure."

Graffiti on indecision
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"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."

Addison, Joseph on laughter
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"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."

Barth, Karl on laughter
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"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

Graham, Billy on the future
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"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays."

Kierkegaard, Søren on prayer
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