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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. – Louise L. Hay

A great fortune is a great slavery. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. – William James

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. – Ray Bradbury

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. – Thomas Carlyle

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. – Vincent Van Gogh

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. – William James

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. – Pablo Picasso

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. – Orison Swett Marden

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. – Gore Vidal

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. – Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. – Emmet Fox

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. – Henry Rollins

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity. – Paulo Coelho

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. – Soren Kierkegaard