Excerpts of Citations
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
~Albert Einstein
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People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass...
~ Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach...
~Carl Schurz
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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
~Marcus Aurelius
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
~Abraham Lincoln
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
~EB White
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
~Gandhi
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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you’re lying in your coffin….Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everyt...
~ Anthony de Mello
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
~Gandhi
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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave...
~Anthony de Mello
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The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
~Harlan Ellison
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
~Walt Whitman
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Garth: "Lars, you are a conundrum!"
Lars: I march to the beat of my own conundrummer.~Lars Hacking
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Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
~Winston Churchill
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
~Erica Jong