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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises. – Jelaluddin Rumi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions. – Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. – Cicero	added by anonymous 13 years ago
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. – Christopher Reeve	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. – William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. – Glen Cook, Shadow Games	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. – Matthew Arnold	added by anonymous 13 years ago
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble. – Mennonite Proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. – Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. – Baltasar Gracian	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. – Roy L. Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Frank It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. – Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time. – Sarah Brady	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them. – Ossian Lang	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything. – Johann K. Lavater	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. – Antoine De Saint-Exupery	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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