"I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am."

Hunt, Trinidad on possessions
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"Out of limitations, new forms emerge"

Braque, Georges on limitation
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"My sun sets to rise again."

Browning, Robert on optimism
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"So free we seem, so fettered we are!"

Browning, Robert on freedom
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"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

Browning, Robert on love
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on love
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"Love all, but trust a few."

Shakespeare, William on trust
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"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on work
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"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

Reading, Lady Stella on achievement
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"To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working."

Weaver, Dennis on achievement
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on hope
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"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"

Burke, Edmund on
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"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better."

Claudius on wish and wishing
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"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office."

Frost, Robert on work
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"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."

Whitehorn, Katharine on christmas
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"Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

Antisthenes on enemies
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"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own."

Thompson, Francis on pain
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."

Proverb, Chinese on criticism
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"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

Nash, Ogden on science
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

Shakespeare, William on envy
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"Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done."

Shakespeare, William on past
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"Striving to better, oft we mar what's well."

Shakespeare, William on perfection
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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour."

Blake, William on eternity
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"To create a little flower is the labor of ages."

Blake, William on flowers
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"No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train."

Alvarez, A. on suicide
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"The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sorrow
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"Sorrow makes us children again."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sorrow
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"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."

Confucius on sorrow
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"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."

Casey, M Kathleen on adversity
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on absence
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on absence
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

Cowper, William on absence
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"No one is as angry as the person who is wrong."

Proverb on anger
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."

Eliot, George on words
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This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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