"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Croft, Roy on Love
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"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."

Locke, John on Humankind
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

Locke, John on Books - Reading
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

Locke, John on Thoughts and Thinking
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"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

Locke, John on Action
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"And our dreams are who we are."

Sher, Barbara on Dreams
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"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning."

Sher, Barbara on Dreams
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"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do."

Sher, Barbara on Individuality
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"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."

Sher, Barbara on Resentment
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"When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given."

Sher, Barbara on Risk
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"Change is not only likely, it's inevitable."

Sher, Barbara on Change
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"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."

Sher, Barbara on Control
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on Defeat
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

Angelou, Maya on Aggression
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Angelou, Maya on Life and Living
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"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."

Duffecy, James on Music
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"Love once earned must be earned once more. True love is freely given; not gained nor bought. Make therefore every merit to deserve it, but no effort to conquer it."

Corrales, Obed on Love
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"Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof."

Bach, Richard on Family
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"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard on Love
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"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Difficulties
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"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Difficulties
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Dissatisfaction
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Adversity
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"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Age and Aging
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"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Evil
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"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Greatness
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"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Hell
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"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

Ziglar, Zig on Expectation
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"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

Ziglar, Zig on Failure
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on Goals
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"You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific."

Ziglar, Zig on Goals
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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers."

Angelou, Maya on Smile
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