"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."

Angelis, Barbara De on happiness
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"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De on kindness
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

Epictetus on adversity
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on difficulties
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"Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another s."

Epictetus on destiny
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"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."

Epictetus on discipline
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"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus on achievement
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"God hath entrusted me with myself."

Epictetus on god
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

Epictetus on happiness
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"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."

Epictetus on life
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"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."

Epictetus on listening
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"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus on power
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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

Epictetus on action
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"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it."

Epictetus on criticism
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"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

Frost, Robert on god
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Ackerman, Diane on life
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"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

Digest, Readers on friends and friendship
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"Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny."

Burke, Edmund on law and lawyers
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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

Burke, Edmund on youth   

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

Burke, Edmund on action   

"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."

Butler, Samuel on joy
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"The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them."

Butler, Samuel on experts
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"Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover."

Burke, Edmund on praise
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"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."

Butler, Samuel on faith
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"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."

Butler, Samuel on fun   

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"By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible."

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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty --the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"We are all alike, on the inside."

Twain, Mark on equality
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