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Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Confucius
Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.
Topic: Reason
Author: Proverb
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Topic: Isolation
Author: Boris Pasternak
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Topic: Public Speaking
Author: Marcus T Cicero
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Aaron Machado
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
Topic: Relationships
Author: Christopher Morley
Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.
Topic: Burden
Author: Jack Kornfield
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Topic: Peace
Author: Mother Teresa
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Edward M Forster
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Topic: Actions
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait. God laid His fingers on the ivories Of her pure members as on smoothed keys, And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.
Topic: Mortality
Author: Francis Thompson
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
Topic: Fire
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Topic: Passion
Author: Robert Lowth
God of pity and love, return to this earth. Go not so far away, leaving us to evil. Darkness is loose upon the world, the Devil Walks in the land, and there is nothing worth. Death like a dog runs howling from his lair; His bite has made men mad, they follow after All howling too, and their demoniac laughter Drowns like a sea our solitary prayer. Return, 0 Lord, return. Come with the day, Come with the light, that men may see once more Across this earth's uncomfortable floor The kindly paths, the old and loving way. Let us not die of evil in the night. Let there be God again. Let there be light.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Robert Nathan
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Topic: Movies
Author: Christina Aguilera
A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.
Topic: Politics
Author: Duc De Choiseul
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Eric Hoffer