"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Nin, Anais on courage
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"The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed."

Collier, Robert on desire   

"Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present."

Lubbock, Sir John on affection
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"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."

Alinsky, Saul on change
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

Alther, Lisa on change
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"The most useless are those who never change through the years."

Barrie, Sir James M. on change
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"A liar is full of oaths."

Corneille, Pierre on lies and lying
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"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."

Crowley, Aleister on lies and lying
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"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on lies and lying
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"By a lie, a man...annihilates his dignity as a man."

Kant, Immanuel on lies and lying
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"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar."

Lincoln, Abraham on lies and lying
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"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world."

Merlin on lies and lying
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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on lies and lying
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"Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on lies and lying   

"No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on lies and lying
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"Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth."

Phaedrus on lies and lying
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"Great talker, great liar."

Proverb, French on lies and lying   

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

Shaw, George Bernard on lies and lying
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"Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't."

Unknown, Source on lies and lying   

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Hardin, Salvor on violence
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"In violence we forget who we are."

Mccarthy, Mary on violence
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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on violence
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"She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness."

Wilde, Oscar on weakness
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"The uncommitted life isn't worth living."

Fishwick, Marshall on commitment
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"The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed."

Navratilova, Martina on commitment
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package."

Ruskin, John on egotism
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"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."

Cromwell, Oliver on deception
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"To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified."

James, William on deception   

"Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth."

Socrates on deception   

"All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things."

Southey, Robert on deception
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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."

Berkowitz, Bernard on appreciation
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"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly."

Paine, Thomas on appreciation
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on friends and friendship
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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

Winchell, Walter on friends and friendship
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"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."

Yogananda, Paramahansa on friends and friendship
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"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."

Aretino, Pietro on friends and friendship
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

Boswell, James on friends and friendship
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on friends and friendship
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