Excerpts of Citations
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
~Shakti Gawain
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
~Steven Wright
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
~Henri Bergson
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Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.
~Ayn Rand
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~Dalai Lama
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No human thing is of serious importance.
~Plato
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Thomas Edison
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end o...
~Winstorn Churchill
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The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
~Heda Bejar
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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves i...
~Seneca
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In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
~Johann von Neumann
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
~Victor Hugo
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
~Thomas Edison
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Then the time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin
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Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
~Hasidic Saying