"The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity."

Cervantes, Miguel De on vanity
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"Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild."

Delp, Alexis on love
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"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe."

Marden, Orison Swett on happiness   

"I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive."

Ephron, Nora on controversy   

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

Ward, William A. on smile
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"Danger breeds best on too much confidence."

Corneille, Pierre on confidence
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"It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on adversity
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"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."

Leifer, Carol on exercise
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"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."

Hardy, Thomas on language
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"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life."

Weil, Simone on imagination
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"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."

Weil, Simone on genius   

"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."

Froude, James A. on reason   

"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as you."

Shaw, George Bernard on advice
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"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."

Diderot, Denis on passion
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"Good music is very close to primitive language."

Diderot, Denis on music   

"I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage."

Taylor, Elizabeth on courage
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"I can, therefore I am."

Weil, Simone on existence   

"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."

Ashe, Arthur on winners and winning
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"If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the good things that happened in my life."

Ashe, Arthur on complaints and complaining
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"Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1."

Ashe, Arthur on success
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"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

Ashe, Arthur on appearance
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"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on enthusiasm
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"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on experience
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"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on humor
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"What comes from the heart, goes to the heart."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on motivation
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"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

Shakespeare, William on travel
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"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."

Whipple, Edwin P. on books - reading
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"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."

Mansfield, Katherine on books - reading
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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?"

Bible on power
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"There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening."

Proverb, American on people
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run."

Schaef, Anne W. on patience
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"Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections."

Klemmer, Brian on practice   

"Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language."

Lee, Harper on example
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"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

Beecher, Henry Ward on time   

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Lee, Harper on courage
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"The first step is the hardest."

Vichy-Chamrond, Marie De on inertia   

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."

Beecher, Henry Ward on gratitude
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"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."

Beecher, Henry Ward on family
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