"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

Hoffer, Eric on affectation
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"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."

Vries, Peter De on home   

"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."

Bukowski, Charles on friends and friendship
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"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely"

Brown, Pam on friends and friendship
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"LET THAT PERSON GO WHOM YOU LOVE IF NEEDED ... BUT DON'T LET THAT PERSON GO WHO LOVES YOU.."

jaswinder on
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."

Balzac, Honore De on friends and friendship
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"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."

Barber, Margaret Fairless on nostalgia
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"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better."

Bible on sorrow
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"Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."

Ziglar, Zig on criticism
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"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."

Peale, Norman Vincent on mind   

"The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them."

Proverb on blame
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"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

Unknown, Source on blame
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"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."

Porchia, Antonio on art
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"The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge."

Berle, Adolf on art
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"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."

Faulkner, William on art
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"Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing."

Foreman, Ed on fear
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"We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others."

Camus, Albert on fallibility
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"Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are."

Camus, Albert on ideals and idealism
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"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead."

Camus, Albert on life
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"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Camus, Albert on potential
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"As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!"

Camus, Albert on sea   

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."

Camus, Albert on knowledge   

"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

Belloc, Hilaire on friends and friendship
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"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"The warrior fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

Chesterton, G. K. on   

"If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame."

Unknown, Source on blame
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"The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?"

Kavanagh, Julia on insults   

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first."

Leach, Reggie on enthusiasm
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"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong."

Fuller, Thomas on facts
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"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."

Carnegie, Dale on tragedies
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"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on envy
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"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Twain, Mark on ambition
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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."

Gibran, Kahlil on fun
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Gibran, Kahlil on generosity
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"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

Gibran, Kahlil on giving
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

Gibran, Kahlil on kindness
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."

Leslie, H. T. on life
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