"Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart."

Glasgow, Arnold H. on adversity
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"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

Devito, Danny on adversity
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"A wounded deer leaps the highest."

Dickinson, Emily on adversity
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

Eliot, George on adversity
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"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on adversity
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"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."

Gallagher, Robert C. on adversity
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"I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments."

Frank, Anne on adversity
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"Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues."

France, Anatole on adversity
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"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on adversity
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."

Ford, Henry on adversity
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"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"Failure is success if we learn from it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

Howe, Edgar Watson on home
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on greatness
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"Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse."

Rogers, Will on dress
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"I never met a man I didn't like."

Rogers, Will on affection   

"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on hope
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
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"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."

Algren, Nelson on advice
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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

Kettering, Charles F. on imagination
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"Home is where the heart is."

Pliny The Elder on home
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"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."

Colton, Charles Caleb on knowledge   

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self."

Francis, Brendan on loneliness
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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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"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."

Stone, W. Clement on choice
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

Kristol, Irving on democracy
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"Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life."

Laing, R. D. on love
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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph on youth
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"A friend is a present you give to yourself."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on friends and friendship
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"No man is useless while he has a friend."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on friends and friendship   

"The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on friends and friendship
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"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on goals
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"Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This is the verse you grave for me:
'Here he lies where he longed to be;
Here is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.'"

Stevenson, Robert Louis on grave
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