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«Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.»
Author: Anne Lamott
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Hope
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begins, dark, dawn, dawned, Do the Right Thing, give it a try, give up, In The Dark, Right Thing, right to work, show, show up, stubborn, The Dark, wait, watch
«The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing»
Author: David Viscott
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Doing Your Best,
Effort,
Trying
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aware, can-do, give in, give it a try, hurt, knowing, materialize, materialized, materializes, materializing, silent, spend, Thing one, to it, try, wants, well aware, wondering, worst, years
«If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.»
«Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.»
Author: Roger Von Oech
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Failure
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approach, benefits, fail, gives, give it a try, opportunity, second
«Before you speak, listen.Before you write, think.Before you spend, earn.Before you invest, investigate.Before you criticize, wait.Before you pray, forgive.Before you quit, try.Before you retire, save.Before you die, give.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
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criticize, criticizes, die, Die Trying, earn, forgive, give it a try, invest, invested with, investigate, investigated, investigates, investigating, investing, invests, listen, pray, quit, retire, retires, save, speak, spend, try, wait, write
«Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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biggest, Challenges, enter, fact, feel, from the, give it a try, going, Good Feeling, go to, in good order, in order, in reality, last, order, Orders of, out of order, place, reality, relationship, Relationships, Something Big, Some of, take orders, taking place, to get, trying
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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after, bad, badness, Better Late Than Never, current, five, gives, give it a try, giving, Good Living, hour, idea, Know how, later, lie, little, lived, means, minutes, not late, obvious, resist, sense, sheltered, sheltering, shelters, sillier, silliest, silly, simply, strong, take five, temptation, The Temptations, This Is, try, very, why
«But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Friendship
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charmed, charming, exactly, flatter, flat out, Friend, friendship, give it a try, giving, going, indeed, knows, means, of one mind, pain, please, preferring, prefers, really, say, says, tried and true, try, unpleasant