Love
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved
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We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. ~
-Kahlil Gibran
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
-Helen Keller
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For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
-Ivan Panin
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Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
-Mirabeau
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Peace
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A smile is the beginning of peace.
- Mother Teresa
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
-Moshe Dayan
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas Gandhi
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Success
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
-Wayne Gretzky
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It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
-Peter Marshall
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The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
-Aristotle
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Moderation is a fatal thing.
Nothing succeeds like excess.
-Oscar Wilde
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In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill
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I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truth
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Adlai Stevenson
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A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
-Edgar J. Mohn
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Truth is such a rare thing, it is delightful to tell it.
-Emily Dickinson
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The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Wisdom
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle
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The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
-Mark Twain
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Other
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
—Erica Jong
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-Abraham Lincoln
