"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on decisions
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"Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on astronomy
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"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."

Aleichem, Sholom on life
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"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."

Riley, Pat on losers and losing
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh 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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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"Life flows on within you and without you."

Harrison, George on life
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"'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale."

Shakespeare, William on decay
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"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream."

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]"

Shakespeare, William on dream
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"Words pay no debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"A wise man's day is worth a fool's life."

Proverb, Arabian on wealth
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on hope
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"Hope is the parent of faith."

Bartol, Cyrus A. on hope
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"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."

Bacon, Francis on hope
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"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Holtz, Lou on attitude
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better."

Holtz, Lou on criticism
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on hope
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Augustine, St. on love
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]"

Bible on love
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"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."

Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste on affection
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