"How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for."

Terence on chance
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"If you never budge, don't expect a push."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on risk
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"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

Hammarskjold, Dag on risk
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"It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats on risk
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"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

Scully, Frank on risk
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"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

Anderson, Walter on risk
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"I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt."

Conrad, Joseph on reserve   

"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."

Buscaglia, Leo on apathy
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"Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

Huxley, Aldous on apathy
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."

Carlyle, Thomas on belief   

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

Kazantzakis, Nikos on belief
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"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives."

Robbins, Anthony on belief   

"I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe."

Rosten, Leo on belief   

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."

Bell, Alexander Graham on determination
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"Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat"

Collier, Robert on desire
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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 messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love. ” "

Washington Irving on emotional
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"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Balzac, Honore De on emotions
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"You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes."

Drabble, Margaret on emotions   

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

Santayana, George on emotions
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"The most important thing you wear is the expression on your face"

Unknown, Source on expression
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"People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on faults
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"Faults are beauties in a lovers eye."

Theocritus on faults
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"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."

Eliot, George on feelings
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"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on fear
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"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."

Anderson, Marian on fear
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"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death."

Bender, Betty on fear
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"Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another."

Harvey, Joan C. on fear
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"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."

Kierkegaard, Søren on fear
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"What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of effort required to accomplish something! A mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a scarecrow to children and fools and a stimulus to real men."

Warren, Samuel on difficulties   

"The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."

Smiles, Samuel on difficulties
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"It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it."

Collier, Robert on desire
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"You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world."

Graham, Sheila on desire   

"By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."

Helvetius, Claude A. on desire
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"There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example."

Huxley, Aldous on desire
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"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on desire
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"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on desire
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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on desire
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"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

Eliot, George on despair
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"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."

Peale, Norman Vincent on detachment
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