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"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."

Kerr, Jean on hope
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"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca on alcohol and alcoholism
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"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Seneca on giving
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"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Seneca on fear
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"The universe is wider than our views of it."

Thoreau, Henry David on universe    Share

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"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

Thoreau, Henry David on wisdom    Share

"The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement."

Thoreau, Henry David on words
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"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

Thoreau, Henry David on writers and writing    Share

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer."

Thoreau, Henry David on compliments    Share

"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted."

Thoreau, Henry David on corruption
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"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. "

Thoreau, Henry David on uncategorised
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"All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement."

Ovid on change
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"Love is full of anxious fears."

Ovid on anxiety
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"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

Seneca on anxiety
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"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

Seneca on advice
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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

Seneca on difficulties
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"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."

Seneca on excellence
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

Thoreau, Henry David on truth    Share

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"Hope and fear are inseparable."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hope
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"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

Wiesel, Elie on hope
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"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view."

Kempis, Thomas on goals
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"Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do."

Kempis, Thomas on god
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"Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be."

Kempis, Thomas on influence
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"Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love."

Kempis, Thomas on love
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"Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong."

Kempis, Thomas on mind    Share

"Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor."

Kempis, Thomas on peace    Share

"First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."

Kempis, Thomas on peace
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"Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself."

Kempis, Thomas on spirituality    Share

"Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book."

Kempis, Thomas on books - reading
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"Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change."

Kempis, Thomas on change
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"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss."

Kempis, Thomas on weakness
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

Kempis, Thomas on absence
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"Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing."

Seneca on hope
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"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

Russell, Bertrand on hope
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"Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you."

Ruckett on hope
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"Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say."

Miller, Henry on hope
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"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

Proverb, English on hope
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on hope
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