"Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell."

Ruckett on dream
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"Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens."

Ruckett on death
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"Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late."

Ruckett on anxiety
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"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."

Roche, Arthur Somers on anxiety
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"Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records."

Ward, William A. on adversity
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"There is a crack in everything God has made."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on god
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"We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

Tibolt, Frank on action
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"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."

Stalin, Joseph on communism and socialism
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"Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far."

Cocteau, Jean on tact and tactfulness   

"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them."

Cocteau, Jean on adversity
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on strategies
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"Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure."

Hales, Stephen on science   

"To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is."

Weil, Simone on science   

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."

Kelvin, Lord on science   

"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."

Post, Laurens Van du on adversity
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"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."

Hansen, Mark Victor on action
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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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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."

Sun Tzu on strategies
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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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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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on education
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"The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people."

Morley, Christopher on enemies   

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter."

Morley, Christopher on heaven   

"The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

Morley, Christopher on poetry and poets
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"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."

Morley, Christopher on beauty
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"There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Morley, Christopher on success
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"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself."

Friedan, Betty on relationship
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"It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal."

Easwaran, Eknath on relationship
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"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose."

Easwaran, Eknath on meditation
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"We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin."

Watts, Alan W. on meditation   

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier."

Young, Margaret on happiness   

"The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."

Young, Margaret on love   

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

Aurelius, Marcus on harmony
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"In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit."

Musashi, Miyamoto on courage   

"An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

Miller, Henry on solitude
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