"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire."

Foster, John W. on Motivation
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on Motivation
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"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

Twain, Mark on Insanity
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Insanity
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"All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust."

Carnegie, Dale on Past
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"We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on Perseverance
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."

Levant, Oscar on Insanity
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha on Thoughts and Thinking
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"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

Buddha on Present
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on Hope
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Hope
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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen."

Ovid on Aid and Assistance
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"The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with."

Brodsky, Joseph on Evil
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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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"To do no evil is good, to intend none better."

Claudius on Evil
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"I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."

Curie, Madame Marie on Evil
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"Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies."

Chesterfield, Lord on Firmness
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"Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go."

Driscoll, Louise on Heart
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"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

Einstein, Albert on Heart
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"Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Heart
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"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful."

Curie, Madame Marie on Service
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"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."

Curie, Madame Marie on Children
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"If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic."

Carnegie, Dale on Enthusiasm
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"When a person is in fashion, all they do is right."

Chesterfield, Lord on Fashion
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"Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so."

Chesterfield, Lord on Discretion
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"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

Carnegie, Dale on Fear
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"I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love."

Strindberg, J. August on Love Ended
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"She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her."

Shakespeare, William on Love Ended
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"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."

Duras, Marguerite on Love Ended
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on Insanity
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"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

Curie, Madame Marie on Life and Living
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"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on Life and Living
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"No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread."

Burton, Robert on Love
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"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Carnegie, Dale on Fear
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"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

Carnegie, Dale on Fear
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on Friends and Friendship
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

Carnegie, Dale on Perseverance
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"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."

Carnegie, Dale on Memory
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on Love
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Buddha on Love
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