“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
— Epictetus
Author: Epictetus
Category: motivational
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“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
— Epictetus
Author: Epictetus
Category: motivational
Tags: motivational, Epictetus
“Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.”
— Ralph Ellison
Author: Ralph Ellison
Category: relationship
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“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: nature
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“The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.”
— Harold Nicolson
Author: Harold Nicolson
Category: marriage
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“What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.”
— Pete Fountain
Author: Pete Fountain
Category: jealousy
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“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.”
— Martin Luther
Author: Martin Luther
Category: war
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“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti
Category: inspirational
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“Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.”
— David Amram
Author: David Amram
Category: knowledge
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“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”
— William Burroughs
Author: William Burroughs
Category: war
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“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
— Barbara de Angelis
Author: Barbara de Angelis
Category: power
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“I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.”
— Dennis Rodman
Author: Dennis Rodman
Category: women
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