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We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There
are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after
them.
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world.
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"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to
expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns
to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find
comfort somewhere."
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage
as the day gets on.
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They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both
pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new
future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the
heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
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It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought
into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
Of Human Bondage (W
Somerset Maugham)
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"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of
action."
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot
admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.
This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and
cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.
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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer
yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you
know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists
in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps
of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul
perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to
reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's
yours.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of
heaven.
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"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For
the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
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I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to
find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man
can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it
really means.
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And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's
the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that
just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
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If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
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I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is
possible.
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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but
when he appeals to the imagination.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked
so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the
real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present.
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If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
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You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
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Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
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What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could
not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the
likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for
something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in
life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the
outcome, cause for pride and contentment.
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When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive
to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom.
Losing all hope was freedom.
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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"The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel
the wild, mad thrill of despair."
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My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the
thief of time.
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I call people rich when theyre able to meet the requirements of their
imagination.
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Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the
frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty
lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.
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"Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through
kindness. Through mercy."