"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."

Crosland, Anthony on Generations
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"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly."

Sophocles on Life and Living
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"For the dead there are no more toils."

Sophocles on Death and Dying
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"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

Sophocles on Failure
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"To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task."

Sophocles on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"To him who is in fear everything rustles."

Sophocles on Fear
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"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

Sophocles on Forgiveness
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"Kindness gives birth to kindness."

Sophocles on Kindness
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"Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men."

Lewis, Wyndham on Indolence
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"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Emotions
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"We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Emotions
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Enemies
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"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."

Churchill, Jennie Jerome on Friends and Friendship
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"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Age and Aging
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Adversity
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"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Absurdity
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"Children smile on the average 400 times/day; Adults: 15 times/day. Ever wonder why?"

Unknown, Source on Smile
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"Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!"

Mandino, Og on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper."

Mandino, Og on Adversity
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"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Enjoyment
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"He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive."

Kahn, Master on Fights and Fighting
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"All words are part true and part false."

Kahn, Master on Words
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"Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains."

Proverb on Fights and Fighting
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"Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed."

Mitchell, Margaret on Fights and Fighting
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"If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope."

Gunther, Max on Fights and Fighting
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"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

Gracian, Baltasar on Fights and Fighting
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"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."

Frost, Robert on Fights and Fighting
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Facts
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Fights and Fighting
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"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."

Buren, Abigail Van on Fights and Fighting
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"You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Fights and Fighting
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"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."

Dirac, Paul on Fights and Fighting
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on Change
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on Change
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"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."

Asimov, Isaac on Change
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on Dissatisfaction
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Thoreau, Henry David on Dreams
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"why wait for night to dream?"

Unknown on Dreams
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"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on Happiness
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