"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Bacon, Francis on Humor
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"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better."

Bible on Sorrow
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"We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again."

Unknown, Source on Sadness
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"We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death."

Proverb on Death and Dying
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"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

Rohn, Jim on Joy
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"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

Horace on People
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"Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true."

Picasso, Pablo on Fame
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"I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?"

Kennedy, Rose F. on Trials
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"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."

Aeschylus on Self-reliance
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"Help yourself, and Heaven will help you."

La Fontaine, Jean De on Self-reliance
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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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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on Hope
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on Hope
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on Hope
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on Adversity
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on Action
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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