"Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now."

Twain, Mark on Insanity
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on Action
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"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Faith
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"The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on Enemies
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"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."

Dali, Salvador on Imitation
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"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."

Dali, Salvador on Ambition
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"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."

Dali, Salvador on Drugs
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"Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words."

Unknown, Source on Ideas
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"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

Billings, Josh on Age and Aging
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"It is better to run back than run the wrong way."

Proverb on Direction
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

Harris, Sidney J. on Ideals and Idealism
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"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."

Dali, Salvador on Influence
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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."

Dali, Salvador on Madness
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"It is either easy or impossible."

Dali, Salvador on Arts and Artists
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"Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it."

Dali, Salvador on Perfection
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"I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait."

Dali, Salvador on Painters and Painting
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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

Dali, Salvador on Modern and Modernism
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"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."

Dali, Salvador on Mistakes
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"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

Dali, Salvador on Memory
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"Be not simply good; be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on Purpose
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"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."

Keller, Helen on Opportunity
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"There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Literary Criticism
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"When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative success mechanism within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or willpower."

Maltz, Maxwell on Imagination
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"What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does."

Unknown, Source on Action
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"Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adversity
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adversity
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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Affection
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"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Age and Aging
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Decisions
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"Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Reality
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"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."

Irving, Washington on Purpose
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"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

Cousins, Norman on Purpose
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"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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"You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?"

Kohe, J. Martin on Choice
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

Marx, Groucho on Choice
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"We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them."

Lair, Dr. Jess on Children
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

Cowper, William on Absence
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"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment."

Carnegie, Dale on Fatigue
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"The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other."

Brahmanada, Swami on Reality
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"Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed."

Bhagavad Gita on Reality
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