Excerpts of Citations
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Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called “the love of your fate.†Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, ...
~Joseph Campbell
from A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living -
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~Gandhi
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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off yo...
~Wayne Dyer
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
~John Andrew Holmes
from "Wisdom in Small Doses" -
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, giv...
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no l...
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton
from 1890 -
There is one principle that I wish the people would understand and lay to heart. Just as fast as you will prove before your God that you are worthy to receive the mysteries, if you please to call t...
~Brigham Young
from Journal of Discourses, 4:371-72 -
I believe we should doubt some of the things we hear. Doubt has a place if it can stir in one an interest to go out and find the truth for one's self.... We should all exercise our God—given righ...
~Hugh B. Brown
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to...
~Henry Miller
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This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, ...
~Friedrich Nietzche
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of w...
~Rollo May
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe