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- Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
- John Patrick
- Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
- Wayne Dyer
- I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
- Joanna Field
- We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
- Raoul Vaneigem
- It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
- Olga Ilyin
- I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
- Antonia Brenner
- Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
- Arnold Bennett
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