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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. Paulo Coelho
Blessing Every Becomes Curse Ignored
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. Thomas Hardy
Time Change Changes Everything Something Except Within Always Surprised Time Changes Which Us
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
Technology Progress Backwards More Merely Provided Efficient Going Us Means Technological Technological Progress
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. Anne Bronte
Nature Sunshine Light Wind Corn Laughed Over Swept
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. Chuck Palahniuk
Depression War Great Spiritual Generation Our Great Depression Our Generation Our Lives Had Great War Lives
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway
Love Death Good Man Happy People Wife Suicide Other Lonelier Outlived Except Good Wife Years End Than Then Who Many Each Lived Her Two Two People
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
God Man Heart Devil Beauty Fighting Battlefield Mysterious Well Terrible
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. H. P. Lovecraft
Ignorance Black Live Voyage Island Infinity Midst Far Should Meant Seas
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
Happiness Nature Broken Man First Shall Between Conditions Link
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. Michael Korda
Motivational Goals Way Constantly One-Way Greater Going Momentum Keep
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. Paulo Coelho
Day You Matter Become Own Seeing Miracle Similar Attention Blind Just Different Paying Each Each Day Brings
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. Charles Dickens
Home Justice Charity Begins Door Next Next Door
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man Fool Once Month Cleverest Himself Calls Opinion Least In My Opinion Who
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. Honore de Balzac
Love Woman Ugly Stupid Nobody She Because Intelligent Handsome Loves
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. James Baldwin
People Treat Other Waters Back Must Cast Poisoned Surprised Than Human Bread Them Less Who Floating
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. Sinclair Lewis
Nature Winter Occupation Season
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love True Love You Love Is Water Draw Give More True Abundant Inexhaustible Go Flow
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. E. W. Howe
Life Work Great You Appreciation Work Hard Humiliation Something Fail Greatest Expect Get Which Then Hard
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honore de Balzac
Love True Love Heart Love Is Pure Seen Young White True Hairs Like Equal Without Always Demonstrations Itself Infinite Eternal Violent
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy
Happiness Life Service People Joy Definite Be Real Object Only Outside Look Real Personal Themselves
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott
Sunshine Try Beauty Believe Follow See Lead Highest Reach Look Up May Where Them Far Far Away Aspirations Away
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach
Family Roof Members Rarely Up Same Grow Grow Up
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. William Makepeace Thackeray
You Walk Flower I Feel Had Feel Romantic
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte
Try Looking Backward Looking Forward Upward Avoid Forward Keep
When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. Elie Wiesel
Thankful Attitude Gratitude Humanity Defined Something Almost Toward Missing His Person Her
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoevsky
People Sometimes Word First Before Strangers Once Sight Has-Been Somehow Perfect Spoken Been Encounter Begin Interest Us Who Even Suddenly
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