"It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before."

Unknown, Source on abuse
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"The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them"

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us."

Unknown, Source on death
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"The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse."

Unknown, Source on desire
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"The more experiments you make the better."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on experience
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"It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable."

L'Estrange, Sir Roger on happiness
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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

Adams, John on education
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Brown, Les on age and aging
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."

Twain, Mark on death
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eloquence
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"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

Tagore, Rabindranath on humility
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"The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself."

Tagore, Rabindranath on laughter
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"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."

Franklin, Benjamin on debt
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"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."

Franklin, Benjamin on expenditure
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"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."

Kierkegaard, Søren on joy
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life   

"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."

Hammarskjold, Dag on destiny
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"To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive."

Hammarskjold, Dag on forgiveness   

"Friendship needs no words..."

Hammarskjold, Dag on friends and friendship
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"What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear."

Hammarskjold, Dag on loneliness
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"Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

Hammarskjold, Dag on maturity   

"Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions."

Hammarskjold, Dag on peace
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"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."

Hammarskjold, Dag on purpose
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"When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate."

Hammarskjold, Dag on procrastination
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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Hammarskjold, Dag on purpose
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"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

Hammarskjold, Dag on risk
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"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."

Hammarskjold, Dag on self-talk
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"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."

Hammarskjold, Dag on courage   

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."

Hammarskjold, Dag on death   

"To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes."

Carlyle, Thomas on faith
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"The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

Carlyle, Thomas on faults
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