"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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"Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself."

Teresa of Avila, St. on kindness   

"'Tis better to understand, than to be understood."

Francis of Assisi, St. on understanding
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"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."

Francis of Assisi, St. on cheerfulness
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"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."

Francis of Assisi, St. on love
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"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."

Francis of Assisi, St. on injury
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"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."

Francis of Assisi, St. on guidance
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"For it is in giving that we receive."

Francis of Assisi, St. on giving
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"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."

Francis of Assisi, St. on forgiveness
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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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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"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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"Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."

Gandhi, Mahatma on evil
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Gandhi, Mahatma on dictators and dictatorship
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"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark."

Thoreau, Henry David on determination
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"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."

Teresa of Avila, St. on experience