"Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share."

Nee, Watchman on life   

"He who has lost honor can lose nothing more."

Syrus, Publilius on honor
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"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."

Clark, Glenn on attitude
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"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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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Hill, Napoleon on sacrifice
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"As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."

Keller, Helen on selfishness   

"Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out."

Richardson, Nick on love
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"I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best."

McKay, John on love   

"Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on remorse
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"You cannot be lost on a road that is straight."

Proverb on direction
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"Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works."

Hay, Louise L. on love
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"Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin."

Kimball, Spencer W. on divorce
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"A woman asking Am I good? Am I satisfied? is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be."

Cartland, Barbara on wives
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"As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen."

Proverb, Mexican on self-image   

"The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior."

Maltz, Maxwell on self-image
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"People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it."

Matthews, Andrew on love
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"Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."

Malraux, Andre on punishment   

"Divorce is the sacrament of adultery."

Proverb, French on divorce
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"There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death."

Stewart, Mary on army and navy
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"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

Aristotle on action
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"Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be."

Byrhhe, Anne on action
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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."

Besant, Annie on action
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"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."

Bronte, Charlotte on action
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"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."

Brown, Les on action
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"Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed."

Caddy, Eileen on action
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"No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on sympathy
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"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause."

Roosevelt, Theodore on causes
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"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft."

Roosevelt, Theodore on strength
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"It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

Roosevelt, Theodore on risk
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"When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer present or not guilty."

Roosevelt, Theodore on politics
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"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."

Roosevelt, Theodore on peace
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"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have."

Roosevelt, Theodore on patriotism
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"Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard."

Roosevelt, Theodore on courage
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"Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds, and mammalsnot to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening. Many leading men, Americans and Canadians, are doing all they can for the Conservation movement. "

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"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. "

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"If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay. "

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