"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on pleasure
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on attitude
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"Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on rejection   

"There are only two types of people in the world. Those who make people happy wherever they go and those who make others happy whenever they go. "

Wilde, Oscar on
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on change
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"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

Branden, Nathaniel on change
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

Burnett, Carol on change
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on duty
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"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on enemies
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"Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on failure
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"A friend is a present you give to yourself."

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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"The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on lies and lying   

"Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on marriage
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"Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on night
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"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on sin   

"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on books - reading
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"He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on travel
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"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on action
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"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on company
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"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on company   

"Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another. "

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"Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln."

Barton, Bruce on hope
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success."

Goldsmith, Oliver on hope
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles on hope
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"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

Schuller, Robert H. on hope
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on hope
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"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

Wiesel, Elie on hope
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."

Confucius on fame
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"Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf."

Confucius on forgiveness
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"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

Angelis, Barbara De on anger
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"When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life."

Aurelius, Marcus on anger
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"Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor."

Bacon, Francis on anger
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