"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on truth
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"The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks."

Voltaire on frankness
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

Crane, Frank on friends and friendship
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"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."

Eliot, George on vanity   

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"What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on vanity   

"The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain."

Ruskin, John on vanity
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"Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on vanity   

"There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off."

Carter, Angela on mothers   

"A mother understands what a child does not say."

Proverb, Jewish on mothers
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"God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers"

Proverb, Jewish on mothers
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"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."

Proverb, Spanish on mothers   

"Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on mothers   

"A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother."

Unknown, Source on mothers   

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

Walker, Alice on mothers
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"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

Washington, George on mothers
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"Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse."

West, Rebecca on mothers
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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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"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret on love
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"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on love
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"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."

Ashley, Elizabeth on love
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Love is the beauty of the soul."

Augustine, St. on love
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"The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."

Barr, Amelia E. on love
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"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Beattie, Melody on gratitude
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"Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy."

Bhagavad Gita on gratitude
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"Gratitude is a twofold love -- love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest."

Dyke, Henry Van on gratitude
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"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

Dyke, Henry Van on gratitude   

"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it."

Halifax, Edward F. on gratitude   

"There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain."

Johnson, Samuel on gratitude   

"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy."

Maritain, Jacques on gratitude   

"I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. [Twelfth Night]"

Shakespeare, William on gratitude
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"Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."

Stalin, Joseph on gratitude   

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark on gratitude
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"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life."

Arliss, George on humility
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"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

Augustine, St. on humility
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"What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God."

Baldwin, Monica on humility
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