"Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives."

Bach, Richard on regret
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"[There is] a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil."

Arendt, Hannah on evil   

"Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in."

Haldeman, Harold Robbins on results
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"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."

Bismarck, Otto Von on truth
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"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on love
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"The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond."

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"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning -- because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is."

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"If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to know him. This would seem to be obvious. Yet most of us spend a great part of our lives thinking up ways to avoid becoming known. Indeed, much of human life is best described as impersonation. We are role players, every one of us. We say that we feel things we do not feel. We say things we did not do. We say that we believe things we do not believe. We pretend that we are loving when we are full of hostility. We pretend that we are calm and indifferent when we are actually trembling with anxiety and fear. Of course we cannot tell even the people we know and love everything we think or feel. But our mistakes are nearly always in the other direction. Even in families -- good families -- people wear masks a great deal of the time."

Jourard, Sidney on relationship
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"Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love."

Jourard, Sidney on   

"Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image. Another reason we hide is to protect ourselves from change. . . Still another reason we don't disclose ourselves is that we were never taught how. . . Personal ambitions and economic pressures also give us powerful reasons for concealing what we really are. . . All of us hide behind the iron curtain of our public selves. . . Men hide what prevents them from seeming strong and masculine. . . Disclosure is so important (because) without it we really cannot know ourselves. Or to put it another way, we learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others. For example, if I never express my sorrow, my love, my joy, I'll smother those feelings in myself until I almost forget they were once part of me."

Jourard, Sidney on love
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"He drew a circle that shut me out-- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. "

Markham, Edwin on
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"Nunc scio quit sit amor. Lat., Now I know what love is. "

Virgil on   

"Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without."

Browning, Robert on truth
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"With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more."

Tan, Amy on hope
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"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

Ash, Mary Kay on motivation   

"In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for."

Wood, Elijah on   

"Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder."

Barnett, Lord on perspective   

"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on perspective   

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on perspective   

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"Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a God; look straight at me and you see yourself."

Manson, Charles on perspective
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"The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men."

Claxton, Allen E. on potential   

"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become."

Herbster, Ben on potential
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"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger."

James, William on potential   

"When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently."

Miller, Henry on potential   

"I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge."

Norman, Greg on potential
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"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito."

Walker, Michelle on potential
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"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."

Fuller, Thomas on friends and friendship
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"The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences."

Kennedy, Eugene on friends and friendship
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"The heart always sees before than the head can see."

Carlyle, Thomas on art
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

Dickinson, Emily on art
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"The heart that truly loves never forgets."

Proverb on art
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all."

Dickinson, Emily on hope
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

Melville, Herman on hope
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"... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them."

Fairbanks, Douglas on friends and friendship
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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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"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity."

Shaw, George Bernard on indifference
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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

Belloc, Hilaire on friends and friendship
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

Boswell, James on friends and friendship
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