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"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."

Cholmondeley, Mary on love
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"Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine."

Gallagher, Robert C. on change
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."

Burns, George on change
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"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."

Paz, Octavio on change    Share

"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."

Rushdie, Salman on events    Share

"a happy childhood needs a parent's unhappy childhood to make it so."

Unknown on childhood
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

Saroyan, William on wisdom
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"Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on mistakes
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on character
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on criticism
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"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little."

Alger, William R. on soul
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"Character, not circumstances, makes the man."

Washington, Booker T. on character
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"When you are at peace with yourself anyplace is home."

Unknown on peace
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Half, Robert on ability
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"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."

Gay, John on envy
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"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God."

Cicero, Marcus T. on superstition    Share

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William on love
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on hope
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on hope
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