"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Dickinson, Emily on beauty
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"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on beauty   

"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety."

Mendelssohn, Felix on beauty   

"Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that."

Prager, Emily on beauty   

"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."

Sand, George on beauty
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"If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on beauty
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"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on beauty
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"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

Wollstonecraft, Mary on beauty   

"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."

Camus, Albert on arrogance
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"Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite."

Proverb on hypocrisy
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"Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels"

Bonder, Rabino Nilton on humility
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"No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday."

Pope, Alexander on humility
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"Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you."

Blake, William on candor
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"A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

Gandhi, Mahatma on candor
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Aristotle on suffering
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"Suffering is part of the divine idea."

Beecher, Henry Ward on suffering   

"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least."

Bradley, Francis H. on suffering   

"We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other."

Freud, Sigmund on suffering
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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing."

Herodotus on suffering   

"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."

Kafka, Franz on suffering
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"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery."

Mansfield, Katherine on suffering   

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

Maugham, W. Somerset on suffering   

"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."

Mother Teresa on suffering
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"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full."

Proust, Marcel on suffering
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"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on suffering
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"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish."

Unamuno, Miguel De on suffering   

"If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all..."

Unknown, Source on suffering
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"One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on suffering   

"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well."

Angelou, Maya on responsibility
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"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

Brown, Les on responsibility
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"Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success."

Brown, Les on responsibility
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"Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber."

Crane, Frank on responsibility
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"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

Didion, Joan on responsibility
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"Good men prefer to be accountable."

Edwardes, Michael on responsibility
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"We are each responsible for all of our experiences."

Hay, Louise L. on responsibility
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"If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself."

Heckscher, August on responsibility
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"We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible."

Massie, Allan on responsibility
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"Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force."

Buser, Paul Vernon on desire