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«Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.»
Author: Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
| Keywords:
absence, Absences, Begin, book, exists, first book, half, has-been, imagine, incomplete, incompleteness, lack, lost, parted, The Other Half, volumes
«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.»
Author: Fydor Dostoevsky
| About:
People,
Relationships
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«To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.»
«The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Suffering
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avoid, Begin, hurt, insignificant, in proportion to, late, proportion, proportioned, smaller, suffer, suffering, Too late, torture, tortures, torturing, Truth Hurts
«The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.»
«Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.»
Author: William Hutchinson Murray
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«To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
| About:
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
attainment, attainments, Begin, enter, pathway, pathways, purpose, ranked, ranking, ranks, recognize
«Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.»
Author: Robert Collier
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Begin, believe in, blue, Blue in, build, In Blue, mental, out of print, out of the blue, print, prints, visualize, visualized, visualizes, visualizing
«The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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«Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Indecision
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as if by magic, Begin, boldness, brings, can-do, days, delaying, delays, earnest, genius, indecision, in earnest, lamenting, lost, magic, minute, seize, seize on, seizing, with boldness
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