"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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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is essentially a partnership."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve."

Aristotle on achievement
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"Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."

Aristotle on goals
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"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

Aristotle on goals
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle on goodness
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own."

Aristotle on parents and parenting
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Aristotle on suffering
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"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

Aristotle on action
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"To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on affection
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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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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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on education
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

Aristotle on education
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."

Aristotle on courage
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