"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."

Stark, Freya on women
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"A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."

Reagan, Nancy on women
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"Stumbling is not falling."

Proverb, Portuguese on adversity
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

Camus, Albert on discontent
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"Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face."

Camus, Albert on faces
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"To be happy we must not be too concerned with others."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."

Camus, Albert on life
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"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Camus, Albert on potential
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito."

Walker, Michelle on potential
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"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do."

Billings, Josh on love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

Scully, Frank on risk
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"I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance."

Rostand, Jean on self-image   

"Life is like a grindstone -- whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of."

Unknown, Source on life
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"Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for; He who has God Finds he lacks nothing;"

Unknown, Source on abundance
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"Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."

Petit-Senn, John on abundance
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"What you are will show in what you do."

Edison, Thomas A. on action
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"You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."

Bronte, Charlotte on parasites
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

Hoffer, Eric on stupidity
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"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat."

Wilde, Oscar on ugliness
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"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Hubbard, Elbert on stupidity
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"Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."

Vizinczey, Stephen on stupidity
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"The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them."

Wilde, Oscar on stupidity
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"The greatest evil is physical pain."

Augustine, St. on pain
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"Pain with the thousand teeth."

Watson, Sir William on pain
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"Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on indifference   

"Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character   

"Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking."

Proverb, Chinese on character
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"You must look into people, as well as at them."

Chesterfield, Lord on character
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"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."

Buren, Abigail Van on character
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"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."

Greeley, Horace on character
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"All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on character   

"Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character."

Boardman, George D. on character
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"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]"

Bible on character
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