“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.”
– Herman Hesse
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Hell of heaven – John Milton
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
– John Milton
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Leadership – Colin Powell
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
– Colin Powell
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Impostors – Alain De Botton
“The fear of being an Impostor gets resolved not when we become deeply sure of our abilities but when recognise that we’re not unusual in doubting ourselves. It’s not that we stop being impostors but that we realise that everyone is – and that our normal quota of self-doubt has really very little to do with the actual contribution that anyone makes.”
– Alain De Botton
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Chance – Unknown
“You only stand a chance if you take one.”
– Unknown
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Conviction – WB Yeats
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity”.
– WB Yeats
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Acceptance – George Orwell
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
– George Orwell
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Attitude – Chuck Swindoll
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company…a church…a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.”
– Chuck Swindoll
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Man has a right to kill – Blaise Pascal
“Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?”
– Blaise Pascal
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship… the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
– Hermann Göring
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I love you – John Keats
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
– John Keats
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The most difficult thing – Amelia Earhart
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
– Amelia Earhart
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Tenderness of heart – Jane Austen
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
– Jane Austen
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These mountains – Najwa Zebian
“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
– Najwa Zebian
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Schizophrenic
“People who are born deaf and happen to be schizophrenic have some weird experiences. Someone born deaf, that has never been able to hear, uses Sign Language as their actual language. Not a representative language. Like the sign for water just is water, not the sign for water. When these people are schizophrenic and “hear” voices, they actually see disembodied hands floating in mid air signing to them.”