"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"

Whitman, Walt on Learning
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"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow."

Pirandello, Luigi on Reality
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"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."

Ellington, Duke on Adversity
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"Only from the heart Can you touch the sky."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on Love
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"If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave."

Cato The Elder on Control
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"Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."

Unknown, Source on Body
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"A little body often harbors a great soul."

Proverb on Soul
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"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on Health
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"The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new."

Brown, Norman O. on Body
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"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim."

Oates, Joyce Carol on Men and Women
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"Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning."

Evans, Bergen on Wisdom
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on Hope
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"The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts."

Kent, Sir Arthur on Humankind
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on Adversity
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"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."

Adenauer, Konrad on Humankind
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"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character."

Greeley, Horace on Character
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"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do."

Channing, William Ellery on Character
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"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

Euripides on Youth
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"Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on Trying
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"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

Whitney, Willis on Attitude
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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

Schlessinger, Dr. Laura on Attitude
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"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."

Nin, Anais on Attitude
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."

Keller, Helen on Attitude
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"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Holtz, Lou on Attitude
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"I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on Attitude
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"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on Life and Living
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."

Buddha on Love
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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on Courage
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"The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead."

Stravinsky, Igor on Music
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"Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Preparation
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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Emotions
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"Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it."

Heine, Heinrich on Revolutions and Revolutionaries
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"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

Laird, Donald on Motivation
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"Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Mind
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"Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go."

Driscoll, Louise on Heart
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"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Culture
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"So many signatures for such a small heart."

Mother Teresa on Bureaucracy
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"A mother's heart is always with her children."

Proverb on Mothers
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"A heart that loves is always young."

Proverb, Greek on Love
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"There is no instinct like that of the heart."

Byron, Lord on Intuition
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