"What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are."

Mckay, David O. on learning
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"Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction."

Givens, Charles J. on failure
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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears."

Benson, Arthur Christopher on fear
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"There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away."

Christie, Agatha on conversation
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"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."

Twain, Mark on losers and losing
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"Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss."

Riley, Pat on losers and losing
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"Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past."

Percy, Walker on grief
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"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

Aurelius, Marcus on losers and losing
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"Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice."

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism   

"Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."

Shakespeare, William on losers and losing
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"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."

Carlyle, Jane Welsh on bereavement
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"It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss."

L'Estrange, Sir Roger on wisdom   

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."

Addison, Joseph on patience
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"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."

Baughan, Bill on life
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"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

Mandino, Og on adversity
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"It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains."

Gunther, Max on risk
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"Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun."

Belloc, Hilaire on death
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"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on teacher
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"A flatterer is one who says things to your face that he wouldn't say behind your back."

Unknown, Source on flattery   

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

Shaw, George Bernard on art
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Hughes, Langston on dream
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"Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts."

Crawshaw, Richard on love   

"When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge."

Kupferberg, Tuli on ideas   

"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."

Cervantes, Miguel De on fear   

"Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson."

Craig, Roger on fear   

"Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die."

Dale, Stan on fear
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"He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."

Dryden, John on fear
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"Always do what you are afraid to do."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

Ford, Henry on fear
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"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."

Carlyle, Thomas on fear
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"The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process."

Bryant, Jean on fear
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"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]"

Bible on fear
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"Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on fear
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"Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead."

Gillies, Jerry on fear   

"You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves."

Hesse, Hermann on fear
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