"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."

Hazlitt, William on Hope
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"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone."

Foster, Robert D. on Prayer
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"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God."

Kierkegaard, Soren on Mystics and Mysticism
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"There is always someone better for you, but there is only one person thats right for you"

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"No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life."

Marden, Orison Swett on Mistakes
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles on Hope
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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong."

Lincoln, Abraham on Truth
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"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us."

Traherne, Thomas on Gratitude
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on Self-love
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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on Passion
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on Love
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"Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life."

Omkarananda, Swami on Infinity
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"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."

Lao-Tzu on Power
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on Freedom
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"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

Joubert, Joseph on Argument
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"Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory."

Walters, J. Donald on Self-acceptance
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"Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise."

Thomas, John M. on Happiness
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"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."

Voltaire on Wisdom
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"Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness."

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De on Sorrow
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"Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?"

Unknown, Source on Opportunity
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"His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes -- cats -- I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate."

Watson, Sir William on Dogs
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on Adversity
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"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."

Cholmondeley, Mary on Love
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"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on Friends and Friendship
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"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

Gibran, Kahlil on Love
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"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."

Berlin, Irving on Attitude
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on Money
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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."

Soros, George on Mistakes
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

Mother Teresa on Action
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Wilde, Oscar on Loyalty
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"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

Tibolt, Frank on Action
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"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on Malice
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"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on Affection
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Achievement
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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience."

Unknown, Source on Patience
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"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."

Thoreau, Henry David on Solitude
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

Chanel, Coco on Uniqueness
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"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Adversity
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"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."

Setter, Maurice on Present
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"When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb."

Riley, Pat on Teams and Teamwork
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