"He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day."

Old English Rhyme on prudence
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"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on past   

"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."

Moon, William Least Heat on past   

"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on past
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"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

Bruyere, Jean De La on loneliness
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"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."

Weil, Simone on attachment
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"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."

Eckhart, Meister on detachment
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"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."

Santayana, George on pain
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"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

Rohn, Jim on pain
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"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

Moore, Mary Tyler on pain
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"Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again."

Harte, Bret on pain
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"Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

Ellis, Havelock on pain
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"The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales."

Aesop on pain
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"The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past"

Unknown, Source on past   

"The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going."

Unknown, Source on past
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"If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way"

Unknown, Source on past   

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."

Schuller, Robert H. on past
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"You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see."

Stern, Richard Martin on past
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"Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten."

Proverb, German on past
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"Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge
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"Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more."

Schoenberg, Harold on discipline   

"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal."

Dante Alighieri on beauty
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"True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on science   

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on purpose
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"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on present
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"We lost because we told ourselves we lost."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on attitude
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"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on love
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on love
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"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on greatness
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"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on family
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"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."

Poe, Edgar Allan on thoughts and thinking
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

Poe, Edgar Allan on beauty
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance."

Poe, Edgar Allan on memory
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"After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment."

Poe, Edgar Allan on life
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on understanding
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"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on wisdom
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