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I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because… — Will Smith
A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity… — Dalai Lama
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We… — Dalai Lama
Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when… — Dalai Lama
EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated… — Ambrose Bierce
The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early… — Charles Darwin
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the… — Charles Darwin
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass. — Bel Kaufman
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. — Mary Webb
When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action,… — Maya Angelou
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again. — Thomas More
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. — Charles Dickens
Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth... — Christina Rossetti
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. — Miguel de Cervantes
My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to… — Alice Walker
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. — Nicolas Chamfort
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's… — Lucretius
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly… — Mark Twain
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event… — Leo Tolstoy
He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of… — Wilfred Trotter
I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat;… — Og Mandino

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