Excerpts of Citations
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.
~Euripedes
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
~Aung San Suu Kyi
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There is no wisdom without love.
~N. Sri Ram
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
~Ernest Hemingway
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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
~Jessie Sampter
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
~Booker T. Washington
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
~Anne Frank
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
~Jonathan Swift
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
~Mark Twain
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
~May Sarton
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
~Euripedes
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
~Johann K. Lavater
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Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
~Saadi
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To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
~Alexis Carrel
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
~Barry LePatner