"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on happiness
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"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on life
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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

Irving, Washington on tears
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on materialism   

"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."

Fowles, John on poetry and poets
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"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on charm
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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on teacher   

"Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on thoughts and thinking
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"The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart in its cunning quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on   

"The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir."

Mason, John L. on education
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"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."

Franklin, Benjamin on fashion
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"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on worry
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"All things grow with time -- except grief."

Proverb, Jewish on grief
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"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

Lao-Tzu on love
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"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on appreciation
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do."

Auvil, Myrtle on love
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"There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."

Irving, Washington on adversity
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"The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow."

Irving, Washington on heroes and heroism
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"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."

Irving, Washington on humor
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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

Irving, Washington on love
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."

Adler, Alfred on love
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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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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Music is only love looking for words."

Durrell, Lawrence on music
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"Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it."

Covey, Stephen R. on security
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself."

Barr, Roseanne on temperament
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"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."

Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste on affection
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"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."

Franklin, Benjamin on eyes
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"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."

Collier, Robert on adversity
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"A cause a day keeps reality away."

Fraser, Jim on reality   

"Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom."

Horace on speakers and speaking
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"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Italian on experience
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