"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

France, Anatole on innocence   

"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."

Wallace, Lew on loneliness
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"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."

Stone, W. Clement on attitude
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"Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret."

Lucado, Max L. on regret
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"You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

Drummond, Henry on love
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"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."

Havner, Vance on adversity
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""Strong Words are made by Strong Beliefs,And Strong Beliefs comes from Strong Faith.A Person can Believe in anything,and still not have Faith.Faith is what gets us over any Challenge we may face.Faith is knowing that betters days are to come even when it seems it worst.” William Southern"

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"Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on lies and lying   

"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

Kaunda, Kenneth on ambition
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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" We will never be more than we are meant to be!"

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" Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning."

Sorin Cerin on measure   

"I'm nothing, yet I'm everything."

Unknown, Source on acceptance
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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Weil, Simone on oppression
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"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again."

Greene, Nathanael on oppression   

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever."

Orwell, George on oppression
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"Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold."

Hood, Thomas on gold   

"DdEEterMI-NAAAAAtion: The process is painful, draining, and provides no ultimate guarantee. It is only for the stout of heart; the brave, the true . . . and those who have no alternative but to succeed."

Vanderlinden, Natasha on perseverence   

"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"Self-control in emotion is most difficult to master. Refusing the dictatorship of capricious emotion, I have found that the ability to exhibit the right emotion often resides with acting on the hard choice."

Vanderlinden, Natasha on self control
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"You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are."

Arrington, Eva on thoughts and thinking
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"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."

Wooden, John on perseverance
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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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"Energy and persistence alter all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on energy
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"Productivity over pleasure, It is a pleasure being productive."

Jvongard on pleasure   

"Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change."

Proust, Marcel on change
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"When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently."

Bhagavad Gita on feelings
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor."

Cowper, William on variety   

"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

Carter, Jimmy on multiculturalism
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

Unknown, Source on confusion
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on loneliness
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"Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad."

Conrad, Joseph on loneliness
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"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness."

Ellis, Havelock on obstacles
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