It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Author:
Anais Nin
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
Author:
Langston Hughes
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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Truth
Sensible
Fool
Work: Candida (1898) act 1
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Time
Learning
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When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
Life
Human Nature
British Prime Minister Quotes
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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
Author:
Michael Pritchard
Subject:
Money
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
Author:
Voltaire
Subject:
Death
Charity
Wealth
Work: Letter (1769)
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Author:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Subject:
Love & Romance
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There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.
Author:
Unknown
Subject:
Happiness
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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.
Author:
William Shakespeare
Subject:
Quotes from Plays
Work: Othello", Act 1 scene 1
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Author:
John Lennon
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then - whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again, and they won't be able to forget me - ever.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Advice
American Presidential Quotes
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Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
Subject:
Journalism
American Presidential Quotes
Work: Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Children
Cynicism
Youth
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Subject:
Mind
Thinking
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
Subject:
Beauty
Good
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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Author:
Nelson Mandela
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Author:
Chinese Proverb
Subject:
Anger
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