"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Appreciation
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"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

Halas, George on Regret
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Adversity
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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Friends and Friendship
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"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster."

Asimov, Isaac on Writers and Writing
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"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

Bach, Richard on Writers and Writing
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"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

Baldwin, James on Writers and Writing
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"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on Perseverance
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"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves."

Churchill, Winston on Perseverance
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"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible."

Chesterfield, Lord on Perseverance
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

Andrews, Julie on Perseverance
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"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on Perseverance
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on Love
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on Love
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on Love
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"No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Perseverance
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"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."

Twain, Mark on Perseverance
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"Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most."

Unknown, Source on Kindness
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"Be the kind of person you would like to be with."

Unknown, Source on Kindness
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible"

Nabakov, Vladimir on Words, Language
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"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

Unknown, Source on Kindness
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"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

Joubert, Joseph on Kindness
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

Gibran, Kahlil on Kindness
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"As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech."

Francke, Katherine on Kindness
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"The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God."

Burns, Robert on Kindness
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"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight."

Thoreau, Henry David on Minorities
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"Even the best things are not equal to their fame."

Thoreau, Henry David on Fame
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"We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not."

Thoreau, Henry David on Faith
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"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

Thoreau, Henry David on Failure
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"The heart is forever inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on Emotions
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on Eccentricity
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"Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave."

Proverb, Yiddish on People
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"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

Thoreau, Henry David on Distrust
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"The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground."

Melville, Herman on Madness
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on Hope
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

Franklin, Benjamin on Hope
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"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."

Richter, Jean Paul on Death and Dying
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"Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on Coward and Cowardice
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"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on Death and Dying
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"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."

Christie, Agatha on Regret
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