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Fulton J. Sheen

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Hermann Hesse

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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

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Patrick Dempsey

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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

Pat Conroy

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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Patrick Dempsey

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The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

Patrick Dempsey

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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

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Patrick Dempsey

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The sex drive is the most important and powerful behaviour in mankind.

Richard Ramirez

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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Fred Astaire

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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd

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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Frank Lloyd

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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Frank Lloyd

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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Patrick Dempsey

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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

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But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Hermann Hesse

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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Hermann Hesse

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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Hermann Hesse

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Otto von Bismarck

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Franz Kafka

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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka

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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Ovid

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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka

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Hermann Hesse

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hermann Hesse

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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

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You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

Hillary Clinton

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What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

Hillary Clinton

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Hillary Clinton

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

Fulton J. Sheen

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Orson Welles

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Hermann Hesse

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Orson Welles

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Orson Welles

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Pat Conroy

One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.

Patrick Dempsey

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

Pat Conroy

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Patrick Dempsey

The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

Patrick Dempsey

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Pat Conroy

I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

Patrick Dempsey

Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Patrick Dempsey

The sex drive is the most important and powerful behaviour in mankind.

Richard Ramirez

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Fred Astaire

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Frank Lloyd

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Frank Lloyd

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Patrick Dempsey

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Hermann Hesse

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Hermann Hesse

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Hermann Hesse

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Otto von Bismarck

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Franz Kafka

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Franz Kafka

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Franz Kafka

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.