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"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."

Brookner, Anita on love
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"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."

O'Keeffe, Georgia on achievement
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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on love
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"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone."

Foster, Robert D. on prayer
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us."

Traherne, Thomas on gratitude
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"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

Joubert, Joseph on argument
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"Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise."

Thomas, John M. on happiness
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"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."

Voltaire on wisdom
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on adversity
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"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."

Cholmondeley, Mary on love
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"His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes -- cats -- I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate."

Watson, Sir William on dogs    Share

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."

Berlin, Irving on attitude
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on achievement
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Wilde, Oscar on loyalty
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

Mother Teresa on action
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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience."

Unknown, Source on patience
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"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat."

Eliot, George on battles
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"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."

Burns, Robert on determination    Share

"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."

Ovid on perseverance
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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

Eggleston, Edward on perseverance
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"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."

Unknown, Source on health
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"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

Howe, Edgar Watson on home
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on forgiveness
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."

Moore, Thomas on home    Share

"Home is where there's one to love us."

Swain, Charles on home
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"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on life
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"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."

Duffecy, James on music
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"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

Newton, Joseph Fort on loneliness
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"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."

Crowley, Aleister on lies and lying
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"The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing."

Unknown, Source on ending
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on goals
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