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"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."

Pauling, Linus on action    Share


"Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on action    Share

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."

Lao-Tzu on action
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"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on absurdity
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"It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care."

Picasso, Pablo on indifference
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"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."

Ancis, Joe on behavior
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"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent."

Coghill, C. E. on behavior    Share

"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?"

Cohen, Leonard on behavior    Share

"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."

Descartes, Rene on behavior
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"If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior."

Thoreau, Henry David on behavior    Share

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"It's not sissy to show your feeling."

Diana, Princess of Wales on feelings
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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion."

Lincoln, Abraham on feelings
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"Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle."

Masai, J. on feelings
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"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."

Kraus, Karl on education    Share

"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on jealousy
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"The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment."

Addison, Joseph on jealousy
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"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Stael, Germaine De on desire
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"A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman."

Dietrich, Marlene on wives
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"Slander expires at a good woman's door."

Proverb, Danish on slander    Share

"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."

Mencken, H. L. on temptation
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"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of."

Perkhurst, Charles H. on perception
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"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

Plath, Sylvia on perspective
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"Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

Twain, Mark on secrets
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"But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon."

Milton, John on secrets
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"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

Dickens, Charles on secrets
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"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere."

Congreve, William on secrets
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"Act well your part; there all honor lies."

Pope, Alexander on honor
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"Everything hurts."

Michelangelo on pain
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"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

Moore, Mary Tyler on pain
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"Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing."

Robbins, Anthony on pain
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"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."

Sade, Marquis De on pain
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"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."

Woolf, Virginia on pain
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"For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou has tried us, as silver is tried. [Psalms 66:10]"

Bible on trials    Share

"Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases."

Bradstreet, Anne on trials    Share

"There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles."

Charles, Ray on trials
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