"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on friends and friendship
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"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."

Byrnes, James F. on friends and friendship
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"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity."

Chilo on friends and friendship
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"A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence."

Condie, Sheryl on friends and friendship
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"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

Digest, Readers on friends and friendship
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"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

Shakespeare, William on hope
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"Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision."

Levant, Oscar on indecision
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"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up."

Twain, Mark on indecision
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"Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too."

Unknown on missing you
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"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony."

Britten, Benjamin on music
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"Music is only love looking for words."

Durrell, Lawrence on music
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"Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power."

Haweis, H. R. on music   

"What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion."

Kierkegaard, Søren on passion
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"Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

Russell, Bertrand on passion
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"Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

Thoreau, Henry David on passion
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

Irving, Washington on tears
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"Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength."

Graham, Billy on tears
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

Wiesel, Elie on indifference
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"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough"

Heller, Robert on intuition
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"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on kisses and kissing
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Heinlein, Robert 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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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."

Cousins, Norman on passion
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

Kundera, Milan on passion
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"When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable."

Thích Nhat Hanh on passion
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"He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence."

Blake, William on desire
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"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."

Leissner, Larry on confusion
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."

Unknown, Source on confusion
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"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."

Hemingway, Ernest on war   

"A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."

Unknown, Source on war
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"All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence."

Bunuel, Luis on curiosity   

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity."

Einstein, Albert on curiosity
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"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"Desire to know why, and how -- curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge -- exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

Hobbes, Thomas on curiosity
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"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."

Bach, Richard on desire
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"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."

Casals, Pablo on passion
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"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."

Connolly, Cyril on charm