"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Hugo, Victor on happiness
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"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."

Hugo, Victor on age and aging
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

Hugo, Victor on adversity
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"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."

Cousins, Norman on laughter
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"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

Cousins, Norman on purpose
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]"

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."

Hugo, Victor on animals
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"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

Hugo, Victor on laughter
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"Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom."

Horace on speakers and speaking
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"Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even."

Horace on mind
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"Life is largely a matter of expectation."

Horace on expectation
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"If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself."

Horace on emotions
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"Whatever advice you give, be short."

Horace on advice
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"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

Maugham, W. Somerset on habit   

"Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job."

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"Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull."

Maugham, W. Somerset on perfection
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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

Maugham, W. Somerset on quotations
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"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."

Maugham, W. Somerset on resignation
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"You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences."

Maugham, W. Somerset on consequences   

"People who ask for your criticism want only praise."

Maugham, W. Somerset on criticism   

"Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions."

Charron, Pierre on pleasure
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"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

Thoreau, Henry David on deeds and good deeds
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"When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging"

Rogers, Will on
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"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

Dyer, Wayne on decisions
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"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist."

Dyer, Wayne on leadership
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"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."

Dyer, Wayne on love
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"Softly and kindly remind yourself, I cannot own anything. It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything."

Dyer, Wayne on attachment
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"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."

Dyer, Wayne on present
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"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."

Dyer, Wayne on present
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"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."

Dyer, Wayne on blame
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"Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored."

Dyer, Wayne on bores and boredom
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"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

Dyer, Wayne on writers and writing
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"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."

Dyer, Wayne on children
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