"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

Gibran, Kahlil on giving
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Gibran, Kahlil on generosity
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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

Gibran, Kahlil on the future
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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

Gibran, Kahlil on forgiveness
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"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."

Pascal, Blaise on fame   

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Gibran, Kahlil on nature
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"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."

Rohn, Jim on experience
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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

Kaunda, Kenneth on ambition
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"Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit."

Kaunda, Kenneth on force   

"The more you know the less you need to say."

Rohn, Jim on talkativeness
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"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

Rohn, Jim on happiness
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

Rohn, Jim on planning
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"Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first."

Hodges, Job E. on ideas
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"We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

King Jr. Martin Luther on excellence
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"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

Hill, Napoleon on excellence
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"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

Hill, Napoleon on goals
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"The ladder of success is never crowded at the top."

Hill, Napoleon on success
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"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on dullness
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"People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures."

Wilde, Oscar on fidelity
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"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."

Chesterfield, Lord on advice   

"Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

Nightingale, Earl on fear
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"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."

Connolly, Cyril on youth
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary."

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield on parents and parenting
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"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

Nightingale, Earl on goals
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"Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal."

Nightingale, Earl on goals
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"What's going on in the inside shows on the outside."

Nightingale, Earl on thoughts and thinking
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"People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will admit that or not."

Nightingale, Earl on choice
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"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."

Nightingale, Earl on circumstance   

"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

Nightingale, Earl on joy
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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