A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Author: Ellen Glasgow

Author: Ellen Glasgow

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You mustn’t throw them away. Let me have them.

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People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-te

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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

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I said : "There is a formula for beauty?"He answered : "More than one.

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There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other w

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Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where

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I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving a

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Never order food in excess of your body weight.

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I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan

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I would like to care more about you than about my feelings for you.

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Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

Author: G.I. Gurdjieff
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God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.

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But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life

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It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and o

Author: Stephen King
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It has been said that when we pray, we speak to God; when we read, He speaks to us. Keeping this in

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Carl sat musing until the sun leaped above the prairie, and in the grass about him all the small cre

Author: Willa Cather
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Problems are part of life and within the obstacles it creates are brilliant miracles for the endurin

Author: Darmie O-Lujon
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We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

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I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat born on the soil whose forefathers have been farmer

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What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing

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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

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I loved theater growing up, and my mom always took us to the touring productions that would come thr

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Damn there were days being a woman confused the hell out of her.- Aella

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A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

Author: Dejan Stojanovic
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Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the Gospel truth.

Author: Billy Graham
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than

Author: Edward de Bono
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A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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God is exist within us.

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You would not experiencing great change unless you were ready for the transformation. Embrace the ne

Author: Leeza Donatella
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When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not nece

Author: Michelle Kwan
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Love is as hard to hide as hate.

Author: Jennifer Hudson Taylor
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The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in t

Author: Neil Gaiman
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When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

Author: Drew Carey
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When we lose someone we love the pang we experience seems irresistible at first; but gradually it di

Author: T. Afsin Ilgar
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It is what you think, not what you achieve, that makes you happy.

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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who sta

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounce

Author: Buzz Aldrin
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
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Don’t try to control yourself, just learn to monitor your thoughts.

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Love others to make them feel better and so that you see yourself in the mirrors of their eyes.

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Once the principals in their party are seated, with those lower on the totem pole left to grumble an

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After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her

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I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.

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And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.

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People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is wha

Author: Michael Haneke
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Excite the soul and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the wor

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a though

Author: Richard Dawkins
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That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they mig

Author: Gregory Galloway
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Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

Author: Hermann Hesse
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Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.

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Your health is your starting point - without it, you have nothing.

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When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the

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The deeper the difficulty in fulfilling a dream, the brighter the outcome of its fulfillment and the

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life

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...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt c

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Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

Author: Charles Brenton Huggins
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Say what's in your heart, Annie.''You're in my heart, Samuel.

Author: Vannetta Chapman
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The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is i

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
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A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optim

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Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

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Ones there is a demand, it is our obligation to supply the answers, give the right responses for us

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No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that th

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I love the freedom of my wings. I love the empty space above the ground. I rejoice in my freedom. Fr

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It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but

Author: Søren Kierkegaard
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You can rise above any situation and achieve your dreams.

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Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don'

Author: Lil Wayne
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Success will not come to you like a baby who came to his mother

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You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling t

Author: Willem Dafoe
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The devil does not stay where music is.

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Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying c

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Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nat

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Without wisdom, a teacher is nothing more than a research paper: a knowledge filled text which is bo

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A depressing number of people seem to process everything literally. They are to wit as a blind man i

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I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during t

Author: Billy Graham
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wi

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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of t

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Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do

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Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have

Author: Jim Corbett
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As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is wh

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...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't un

Author: Terry Goodkind
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Tolerance is the essential starting point for compassion. That’s why it is so emphasized in our soci

Author: Stephen Lovegrove
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Perceptions may not be true, but its true for YOU!

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The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

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People will never stopThey will say.Stop troubling yourselfThey are not familyThey are just 'PEOPLE

Author: Prerna Sharma
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force

Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Purge me from every sinful blot;My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought,From

Author: John Wesley
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No matter how much you water the ground, if the ground holds no seed then no plant is coming out. Do

Author: Lazarus Takawira
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Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is cha

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Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Author: Gustave Flaubert
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It is better to apologise later than to ask for permission now. It is called self leadership

Author: Janna Cachola
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My mood depends on the girl whom I love, but she is like a wildest hurricane, drifting shore to shor

Author: J. Limbu
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Love is the essence of life. Without love, life does not make any sense.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addicti

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And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great sil

Author: Raymond Federman
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Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

Author: Michael Jordan
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I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes an

Author: David Cameron
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The key to your greatness is under your control.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.

Author: Sonia Rumzi
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As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

Author: Peter Steele