"Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain."

Wiesel, Elie on writers and writing   

"Is anyone simply by birth to be applauded or punished?"

Hitopadesa on ancestry
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"Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down."

Hitopadesa on greatness   

"Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."

Bierce, Ambrose on absurdity
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."

Augustine, St. on love
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on love
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"Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile."

Wiesel, Elie on indifference
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Barry, Lynda on love
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"Love is the river of life in the world."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

Bierce, Ambrose on love
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Buddha on love
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"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."

Wiesel, Elie on hope
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"No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them."

Wiesel, Elie on racism
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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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"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on hatred
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"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal."

Buddha on hatred
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"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

Socrates on hatred
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"Hatred can be overcome only by love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on hatred
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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

Gide, Andre on hatred
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Hesse, Hermann on hatred
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"Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes."

Sade, Marquis De on lust
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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

King Jr. Martin Luther on joy
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"Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

Ballou, Hosea on hatred
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"All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on self-esteem   

"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on sensuality   

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Whitman, Walt on self-esteem
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"Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate."

Unknown, Source on self-esteem
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"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

Whitton, Charlotte on ability
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"Ability is sexless."

Pankhurst, Christabel on ability
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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."

Marden, Orison Swett on ability
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ability
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