"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, -- you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, -- I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that."

Thoreau, Henry David on rebellion
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"We are constantly invited to be who we are."

Thoreau, Henry David on self-appraisal
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"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."

Thoreau, Henry David on self-improvement
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"Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve."

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge   

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"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."

Thoreau, Henry David on sin
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"I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth."

Thoreau, Henry David on sincerity   

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."

Ashe, Arthur on winners and winning
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"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."

Waitley, Denis on dream
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."

Angelou, Maya on love
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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers."

Angelou, Maya on smile
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God."

Angelou, Maya on children
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Angelou, Maya on impression
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"There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."

Angelou, Maya on cynicism
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"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on dance and dancing
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry on acceptance
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on acceptance
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"In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice."

Churchill, Winston on advice
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"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

Churchill, Winston on golf
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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."

Churchill, Winston on justice
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."

Churchill, Winston on knowledge
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"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

Eliot, George on dream
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"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

Saying, Traditional on belief
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"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."

Eliot, George on failure   

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

Eliot, George on facts
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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving."

Eliot, George on giving   

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"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

Eliot, George on ambition
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

Eliot, George on growth
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