"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."

Unknown, Source on advantage
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"It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true."

Santayana, George on advantage
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"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."

Orwell, George on adulthood
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"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."

Rostand, Jean on admiration   

"You always admire what you really don't understand."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on admiration
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current."

Unknown, Source on adaptability
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"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German on adaptability
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"Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you."

Book, William Frederick on adaptability
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"We will not know unless we begin."

Zinn, Howard on action   

"What we need is to use what we have."

Walsh, Basil S. on action
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"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."

Viscott, David on action
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"When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space"

Upanishads, Veda on action   

"A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does."

Hershey, Lewis B on adulthood
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"The worst men often give the best advice."

Bailey, Philip James on advice
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"A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right."

Unknown, Source on argument   

"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

Eliot, George on animals
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"No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better."

Edwards, Tryon on anger
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha on anger
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"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

Buddha on anger
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"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

Buddha on anger
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"Life is too short for a long story."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on anecdotes
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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."

Grossart, Angus on ambition
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"I only drink to make other people seem more interesting."

Nathan, George Jean on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

Hemingway, Ernest on alcohol and alcoholism
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"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

Scott, Dr. Loretta on aid and assistance
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"When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong."

Unknown, Source on agreement   

"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

Unknown, Source on age and aging
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"In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth."

Ouida on animals   

"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected."

Seattle, Chief on animals   

"There is no point in arguing about matters of taste."

Unknown, Source on argument   

"It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it."

Proverb, Spanish on argument
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"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."

Harris, Sidney J. on argument
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"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right."

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg on argument   

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

Hubbard, Elbert on appreciation
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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."

Berkowitz, Bernard on appreciation
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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on appearance
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"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on apologies
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