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- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
- Althea Gibson (1927 - 2003)
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
- Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.
- Christina Petrowsky
- My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
- Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
- Harriet Lerner
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