"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Twain, Mark on World
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"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Flowers
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"Always do what you are afraid to do."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Fear
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"Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Fear
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Fear
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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Facts
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Expectation
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"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Exercise
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"Anyone can hate. It costs to love."

Williamson, John on Hatred
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"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Fortune
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"So far as a person thinks; they are free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Freedom
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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Friends and Friendship
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"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Ability
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"When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Genius
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"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Genius
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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Friends and Friendship
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"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Friends and Friendship
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Friends and Friendship
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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Friends and Friendship
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"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Friends and Friendship
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on Happiness
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"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. on Infatuation
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"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

Pavese, Cesare on Infatuation
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"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love."

Freud, Sigmund on Love
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus on Love
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"Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding."

Spencer, Herbert on Love
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"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thich Nhat Hanh on Love
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"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Buscaglia, Leo on Love
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"There is no remedy for love than to love more."

Thoreau, Henry David on Love
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"Choose your love, Love your choice."

Monson, Thomas S. on Choice
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"Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless."

Lawrence, D. H. on Love
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"Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Love
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on Love
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Hatred
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on Love
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"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on Love
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"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Meltzer, Bernard on Giving
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"Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong."

Unknown, Source on Kindness
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"Strong reasons make strong actions."

Shakespeare, William on Reason
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"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on Happiness
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