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  2. The Best Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Uplift You Out ...

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    Inspirational Quotes About Success "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”—

  3. No pain, no gain - Wikipedia

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    No pain, no gain (or "No gain without pain") is a proverb, used since the 1980s as an exercise motto that promises greater value rewards for the price of hard and even painful work.

  4. Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    Words for these concepts are sometimes cited as antonyms to schadenfreude, as each is the opposite in some way. There is no common English term for pleasure at another's happiness (i.e.; vicarious joy), though terms like 'celebrate', 'cheer', 'congratulate', 'applaud', 'rejoice' or 'kudos' often describe a shared or reciprocal form of pleasure.

  5. Three Men in a Boat - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. 1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome For other uses, see Three Men in a Boat (disambiguation). Three Men in a Boat 1889 edition cover Author Jerome Klapka Jerome Language English Genre Comedy novel Publisher J. W. Arrowsmith Publication date 1889 Publication place United Kingdom ISBN 0-7653 ...

  6. The Clown's Prayer - Wikipedia

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    The original author of this poem is unknown. There are several variations on this poem. Chris Farley (from Saturday Night Live and Tommy Boy) was known to have carried this prayer with him in his wallet.

  7. Phrases from Hamlet in common English - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare's play Hamlet has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous "To be, or not to be" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Some also occur elsewhere (e.g. in the Bible) or are proverbial. All quotations are second quarto except as noted:

  8. Optimism - Wikipedia

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    An optimist and a pessimist, Vladimir Makovsky, 1893. Researchers operationalize the term "optimism" differently depending on their research. As with any trait characteristic, there are several ways to evaluate optimism, such as the Life Orientation Test (LOT), an eight-item scale developed in 1985 by Michael Scheier and Charles Carver.

  9. Ludlul bēl nēmeqi - Wikipedia

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    Copy of Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, from Nineveh, 7th Century BC. Louvre Museum (deposit from British Museum).. Ludlul bēl nēmeqi ("I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom"), also sometimes known in English as The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, is a Mesopotamian poem (ANET, pp. 434–437) written in Akkadian that concerns itself with the problem of the unjust suffering of an afflicted man, named Šubši ...