"Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain."

FeNelon, Francois on negotiation   

"The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work."

Orwell, George on asceticism   

"Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats."

Orwell, George on autobiography   

"But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit."

Orwell, George on spirituality
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"Myths which are believed in tend to become true."

Orwell, George on myth   

"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel."

Maugham, W. Somerset on success   

"People who ask for your criticism want only praise."

Maugham, W. Somerset on criticism   

"Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to."

Doren, Carl Van on writers and writing   

"The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now."

Maugham, W. Somerset on the future   

"Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight."

French, Marilyn on love
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"To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."

French, Marilyn on parents and parenting
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"One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear."

French, Marilyn on art   

"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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"Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts."

Mandela, Nelson on negotiation   

"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."

Diderot, Denis on passion
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"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."

Diderot, Denis on genius
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"Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion."

Hedge, Francis Herbert on nature   

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on blame
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am."

Buruch, Andre B. on age and aging
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"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Proverb, Chinese on blame
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"Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on hope
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"No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clich?, not from real life."

Pound, Ezra on style   

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William on love
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"The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit."

FeNelon, Francois on brevity
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"Better not be at all than not be noble."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on honor   

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"Little opportunities should be improved."

FeNelon, Francois on opportunity   

"The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form."

Delsarte on vengeance
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"We live in a rainbow of chaos."

Cezanne, Paul on chaos
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"What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real."

Hedge, Francis Herbert on ideals and idealism   

"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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