"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on comfort
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"When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm going to prove you wrong!"

Street, Picabo on challenges
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"When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it."

Smith, Margaret Chase on challenges
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"When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge."

Bradshaw, Terry on challenges
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"Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other."

Macdonald, George on candor
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"None knows the weight of another's burden."

Herbert, George on burdens
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

Shaw, George Bernard on experience
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"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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"Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action   

"Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold."

Marston, William Moulton on want
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"There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on wrong   

"If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it."

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) on wrong
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"Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it."

Anderson, Greg on wish and wishing
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"The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood."

Davis, Bette on weakness
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"It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold."

Shakespeare, William on vow   

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Landers, Ann on value
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"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."

Blake, William on sorrow
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"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on sorrow
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"The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few."

Mcmurtry, Larry on sorrow
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"I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity."

Sand, George on love
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"Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one."

Proverb, Japanese on love
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"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."

Pilgrim, Peace on love
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"Love is a friendship caught on fire."

Northern Exposure on love
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais on love
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus on love
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"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa on love
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"Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little."

More, Hannah on love
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"It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another."

Mcdonald, George on love
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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."

Santayana, George on love
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"Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding."

Seneca on love
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"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."

Segal, Erich on love
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"(on love) It's the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down... bring them low... and make them crawl."

King, Stephen on love
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"My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away"

Wilde, Kim on love
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"If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse."

Unknown, Source on love
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"There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary."

Unknown, Source on love   

"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thích Nhat Hanh on love
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"True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes."

Theresa of Lisieux, St. on love
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"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love."

Sophocles on love
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