"See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse."

Seneca on gratitude
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"God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."

Walton, Izaak on gratitude
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"Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness."

Willis, Nathaniel P. on gratitude   

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Nin, Anais on friends and friendship
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"Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm."

Nin, Anais on orgasm   

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on attitude
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"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."

Nin, Anais on truth   

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Nin, Anais on action
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"It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Nin, Anais on courage
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"The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves."

Walker, Alice on dissent
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

Walker, Alice on friends and friendship
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"She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God."

Walker, Alice on churches
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"It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now."

Ginsberg, Allen on art
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"Things happen for a reason. Moods change from days to seasons, If anything instead of pleasing them, please yourself & just leave'em"

James, Authentic on art   

"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."

Colby, Frank Moore on anger
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"Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman."

Cooper, James F. on candor   

"There is no wisdom like frankness."

Disraeli, Benjamin on candor
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"Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other."

Macdonald, George on candor
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"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on candor
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

Orwell, George on candor
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"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."

Bennett, Arnold on censorship   

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"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."

Cronenberg, David on censorship
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"One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed."

Dale, Edgar on censorship   

"One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO."

Carlyle, Thomas on certainty   

"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

Durant, William J. on certainty
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"There is nothing certain except the unforeseen."

Fraude on certainty   

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."

Keats, John on certainty
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"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain."

Kennedy, John F. on certainty
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"The more I see the less I know for sure."

Lennon, John on certainty
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"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."

Proverb, Chinese on certainty
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"Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."

Voltaire on certainty
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"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me."

Warner, Sylvia Ashton on certainty
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"The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures."

Hegel, Georg on valor   

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

Angelis, Barbara De on difficulties
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"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

Beecher, Henry Ward on difficulties
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on difficulties
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"As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people."

Guthrie, Thomas on difficulties
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"Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on difficulties
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