"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

Shaw, George Bernard on happiness
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Augustine, St. 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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"Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away."

Confucius on animals
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"Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

Confucius on love
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"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."

Confucius on prosperity
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"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."

Confucius on war
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

Confucius on self-talk
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"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

Confucius on learning
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things."

Confucius on joy
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"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."

Confucius on family
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"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in."

Confucius on action
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"The greatest step is out the door."

Proverb, German on action
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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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"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

Confucius on sorrow
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"When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant."

Confucius on scholars and scholarship
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"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry on acceptance
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"No one root is responsible for the existence of a tree."

MacSmiley, Melanie on acceptance
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"Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on acceptance
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

Rougamont, Denis De on acceptance
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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"People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

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"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. "

Confucius on uncategorised
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"If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?"

Confucius on science
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."

Confucius on wisdom
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"To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness."

Confucius on virtue
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"The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself."

Confucius on character
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"They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom."

Confucius on change
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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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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"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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"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire."

Foster, John W. on motivation
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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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