"Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore."

Johnson, Samuel on generations   

"Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good."

Johnson, Samuel on gambling   

"The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal."

Johnson, Samuel on friends and friendship   

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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

Johnson, Samuel on flirting   

"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Miller, Henry on world
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"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on friends and friendship   

"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Shaw, George Bernard on debt
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"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."

Marston, Ralph on reality
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"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."

Barthes, Roland on speech   

"The photographic image... is a message without a code."

Barthes, Roland on photography   

"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle 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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"Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy."

Trungpa, Chogyam on passion   

"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."

Proverb, Indian on action
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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."

Proverb, Italian on action   

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Jung, Carl on pain
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"Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain."

Selden, John on pain
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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

Weil, Simone on pain
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"Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain."

Depree, Max on leadership
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"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."

Leifer, Carol on exercise
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

Kundera, Milan on passion
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process."

Bryant, Jean on fear
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"When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable."

Thích Nhat Hanh on passion
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"Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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