"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

Macarthur, Douglas on soul
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"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence."

Beauvoir, Simone De on marriage
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"Having friends is like wetting your pants, only you can feel its warmth"

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"The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness."

Winkelmann on art   

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."

Leifer, Carol on exercise
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"Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain."

Depree, Max on leadership
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"For a working definition of forgiveness, I think of it as restoring love."

Thomas, Charles on forgiveness
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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."

Hoffer, Eric on freedom
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"The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry."

Adams, James Truslow on worry
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"Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on art   

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on faith   

"Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out."

Gerstner, Lou on risk   

"Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set."

Unknown, Source on mind
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"The past should be a springboard, not a hammock."

Ball, Ivern on past
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"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."

Gide, Andre on prejudice   

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

Moliere on obstacles
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"We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome."

Allen, R. C. on growth
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"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

Holtz, Lou on adversity
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Waitley, Denis on choice
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"Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back."

Unknown, Source on strength
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"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes."

Shaw, George Bernard on power
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"If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you."

Gordon, Charles on power   

"Faith is power to believe and power to see..."

Mulford, Prentice on vision   

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

Jefferson, Thomas on power
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"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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"Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experiencing them can we do something about them."

Hoffman, Bob on fear   

"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on doctors
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"A fault that humbles a man is of greater value than a virtue that puffs him up."

Unknown, Source on faults   

"Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on humility
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"If you are right, take the humble side -- you will help the other fellow. If you are wrong, take the humble side -- and you will help yourself."

Unknown, Source on humility
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Jung, Carl on imitation
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"It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission."

Unknown, Source on forgiveness   

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."

Billings, Josh on forgiveness
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"For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient."

Gibbs, Nancy on miracles
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"Impossible situations can become possible miracles."

Schuller, Robert H. on impossibility
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"The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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