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No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. - Epictetus

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove, what a little will only accustom you to endure. - Fluke Greville

To make one person the centre of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control. - Alexandra Adornetto

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it. - Lionel Shriver

People who do not understand you will never settle for any proof, and people who appreciate you do not need any proof. - Seth

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. - Samuel Butler

I will not follow where the path may lead; instead I will go where there is no path and leave a trail. - Muriel Strode

No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but himself. - Conrado I. Generoso

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. - Benjamin Franklin

He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare. - Washington Irving

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. - J.K. Rowling

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On Laughter

[I am] persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs ... it adds something to this fragment of life. - Laurence Sterne

A hearty laugh lengthens your life. - Swedish Proverb

A laugh a day keeps the psychiatrist away. - Evan Esar

A laugh to be joyous must flow form a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy. - Thomas Carlyle

A laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that’s queer. - Herman Melville

A well-developed sense of humour is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. - William Arthur Ward

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. - Mark Twain

Always find a reason to laugh. It may not add years to your life but will surely add life to your years. - Unknown

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. - Vaclav Havel

But to die of laughter – this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia. - Max Beerbohm

Even in despair, man must laugh. - Lin Yu Tang

He is a wise man who always knows what to laugh at, and a bold man that always dare laugh at what is laughable. - Edward Parsons Day

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Food for Thought

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow and wax strong, we grow and wax weak; and at last some crisis shows us what we have become. - Canon Westcott

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life. - George Washington

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm. - Charles Caleb Colton

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Humorous Quotes

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games – we aren't that sophisticated. - Chris Abani

No one should ever expect happiness from marriage. A few quiet moments, perhaps, if one is lucky...and an occasional day that doesn't incite you to murder. - Lili

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam. I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. - Woody Allen

In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part). - Joy Browne

It’s hard to understand why people who have enough time to play chess want to spend it playing chess. - Evan Esar

Marriage is just fancy word to adopt an over grown male child who is no more handled by his parents. - Unknown

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. - John Taylor

No one ... appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does. - Christopher Morley

How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? How many can you afford? - Blanche Knott

If you could read my mind you’d back away slowly then run for your life. - Unknown

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark Twain

Don't lend money to friends – it causes amnesia. - Unknown

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He who has got more than that is required to fulfill his basic need spends his resources, more often than not, on the people and the products that he does not actually need. - Anuj Somany

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. - Arthur Schopenhauer

If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up. - Brigham Young

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite. - Frank Herbert

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin colour, or religion. - Malala Yousafzai

People only realize what they had after they lose it, so hold onto what you have and never let it go. - Unknown

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. - Frederick Douglass

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends. - George Washington

One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else. - Soren Kierkegaard

He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare. - Washington Irving

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Food for Thought

People know your name, not your story. They’ve heard what you’ve done, but not what you’ve been through. So take their opinions of you with a grain of salt. In the end, it’s not what others think, it’s what you think about yourself that counts. Sometimes you have to do exactly what’s best for you and your life, not what’s best for everyone else. - Les Brown

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves. - Charles Caleb Colton

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Humorous Quotes

A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous. - Will Rogers

One doesn’t generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things. - Robin McKinley

Dancing is the art of getting your feet out of the way faster than your partner can step on them. - Evan Esar

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston S. Churchill

If it wasn't for procrastination ... I'd have nothing to look forward to tomorrow. - Tom Wilson

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. - Henry Ward Beecher

Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway. - Joey Adams

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. - Redd Foxx

Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. - Dorothy Parker

It is much easier to burn men than to burn their opinions. - Charles Dickens

A girl with a good figure can often shape her own destiny. - Evan Esar

I get lost inside my mind. - Unknown

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Death

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. - Jonathan Swift

I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. - Kahlil Gibran

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. - Bertrand Russell

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. - Deepak Chopra

Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared. - Thomas A. Kempis

A couch of thorns, or an embroidered bed, are matters of indifference to the dead. - Theognis of Megara

Death is the end of those who have done nothing to cause their names to live after them. - Xenophon

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. - Seneca

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. - Publilius Syrus

Death is the most beautiful adventure in life. - Charles Frohman

Death doesn't bargain. - August Strindberg

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Quote Worthy

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. - Chanakya

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm trying to free your mind ... but I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it. - Morpheus

It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life. - Unknown

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious. - Carl Jung

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. - Marcel Proust

People get caught up in formulaic answers. When one doesn’t work, they just go on to the next. - James Champy

Never give up on something you really want. It is difficult to wait but more difficult to regret. - Unknown

The less we know, the longer the explanation. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. - Anne Frank

All of us, the great and the little have need of each other. - Aesop

He who opens a school door closes a prison. - Victor Hugo

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