I love you; not only for what you are

I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

by Roy Croft

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The most efficient way to live reasonably

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

by Alexis Carrel

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This one step - choosing a goal and

This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.

by Scott Reed

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The first duty of love is to listen

The first duty of love is to listen.

by Paul Tillich

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All men dream: but not equally

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

by T.E. Lawrence

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The future is not something we enter

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
by Leonard I. Sweet

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Don't grumble that roses have thorns

Don't grumble that roses have thorns, be thankful that thorns have roses.
by Unknown

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The future is purchased by the present

The future is purchased by the present.

by Samuel Johnson

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The great thing in the world is

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A single rose can be my

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

by Leo Buscaglia

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What worries you

What worries you, masters you.

by John Locke

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A gentleman is any man who wouldn't

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

by Fred Allen

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A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life.

by Joseph Addison

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Never cut what you can untie

Never cut what you can untie.

by Joseph Joubert

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A little and a little, collected together

A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

by Saadi

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Nobody got anywhere in the world

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

by Louis L'Amour

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Truly great friends are hard to find

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

by Unknown

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Let us be grateful to the mirror

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

by Samuel Butler

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I think all art is about control

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.

by Richard Avedon

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True strength is delicate

True strength is delicate.

by Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.

by Hans Nouwens

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We are each of us angels with only one wing

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

by Lucretius

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Living is more a question of what

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

by Marcel Duchamp

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Life does not obey our expectations

Life does not obey our expectations. Life obeys our intentions, in ways we may not expect.

by Lloyd Strom

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Others have seen what is and asked why

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

by Pablo Picasso

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The cruelest lies are often

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

by Adlai Stevenson

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The only journey is the

The only journey is the one within.

by Rainer Maria Rilke

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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

by Robert Kiyosaki

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Let us be grateful to the mirror

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

by Samuel Butler

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Success is nothing more than a few

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

by Jim Rohn

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The truest characters of ignorance

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

by Samuel Butler

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In a continent but recently settled

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

by Hervey Allen

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The difficulty is not so great

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

by Homer

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The way to know life is

The way to know life is to love many things.

by Vincent Van Gogh

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Mistakes are painful when they happen

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

by Denis Waitley

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Things we do not expect

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

by Titus Maccius Plautus

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Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

by Swami Vivekananda

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Excellence is to do a common

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

by Booker T Washington

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Variety's the very spice of life

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

by William Cowper

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May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, The foresight to know where you are going, And the insight to know when you have gone too far.

by Irish Blessings

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Listen to many, speak to a few

Listen to many, speak to a few.

by William Shakespeare

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Envy, like flame, blackens that which

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

by Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn

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The sweetest of all sounds

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

by Xenophon

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Success is walking from failure

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

by Winston Churchill

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Ambition can creep

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

by Edmund Burke

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Clarity is the counterbalance

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

by Marquis De Vauvenargues

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You will become as small as your

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

by James Allen

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Cease to inquire what the future

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

by Horace

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You can learn a line from a

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

by Paul Brown

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The first recipe for happiness is

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

by Andre Maurois

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