“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” ― Les Brown

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." - Isaac Newton

"All my possessions for a moment of time." - Elizabeth I

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"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them." - Boris Pasternak

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"To be great is to be misunderstood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action." - Frank Herbert

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"The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind." - Kiran Desai

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“Listen carefully to how a person speaks about other people to you. This his how they will speak about you to other people.” ― Unknown

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"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest." - Laurence Sterne

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"It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think." - Rosie O'Donnell

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"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens." - Benjamin Disraeli

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"Make your own recovery the first priority in your life." - Robin Norwood

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"They can do all because they think they can." - Virgil

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"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore

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"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." - Rita Mae Brown

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"Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either." - Golda Meir

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"I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution." - Wernher von Braun

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“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Keep on truckin'." - R. Crumb

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"I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive." - Frida Kahlo

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"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends." - Pearl Buck

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"If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough." - Edward Everett Hale

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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.” ― John Lennon

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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Robert Frost

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"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves." - Rudyard Kipling

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“If they're holding onto their pride, their ego and their excuses instead of holding onto you, it's time to let go.” ― Unknown

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"The longest journey is the journey inward." - Dag Hammarskjold

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"The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses." - Edith Sodergran

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"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge." - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - Confucius

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“It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.” - Alice Caldwell Rice, on worry

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“Everyone is gifted. But most people never open their package.” ― Unknown

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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” - Confucius

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“Be careful who you share your weaknesses with. Some people can't wait for the opportunity to use them against you.” ― Natalie Imani

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"To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty." - Edgar Lee Masters

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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly." - Thomas Paine

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"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race." - Don Marquis

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"A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.” - Katharine Whitehorn

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"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill

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"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion." - Robert Chapman at #fb

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"A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive." - Erica Jong

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"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art." - don Miguel Ruiz

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“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” ― Khalil Gibran

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“Chicago ain't no sissy town.” - Hinky Dink Kenna

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“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” ― Albert Einstein

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"Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for." - Ogden Nash

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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there." - Eric Hoffer

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"Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong." - George Carlin

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"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." - Dorothy Bernard

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“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.” - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." - W. H. Auden

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"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking." - John Maynard Keynes

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"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch." - Robert Orben

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"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." -- Mother Teresa

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"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate." - Julia Child

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"There is one person in charge of every office in America and that person is Charles Darwin." - Charlie Grandy

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"Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused." - King Charles I

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"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value." Theodore Roosevelt

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“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

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"In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt." - Meg Cabot

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"I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy." - David Henry Hwang

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"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind." -- C. S. Lewis

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"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time." - Shimon Peres

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"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Sir Winston Churchill

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"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Dorothy Nevill

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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." - Abraham Lincoln

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"The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises." - Jorge Amado

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"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Steve Jobs

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"I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life." -- Muhammad Ali

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"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." - H. G. Wells

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"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

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"Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age." - William Feather

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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please." - Pythagoras

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“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.” - Michael Crichton

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"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." -- Vince Lombardi

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

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"A good home must be made, not bought." - Joyce Maynard

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"Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied." - Henry George

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"All general statements are false." - Unknown

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"The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today." - James Carville

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"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"Laughter is the closest distance between two people." - Victor Borge

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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard

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"Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable." John Mankiewicz

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“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.” ― Maya Angelou

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"What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." - Doug Larson

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"Man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities." - Eric Hoffer

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"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself." - Douglas MacArthur

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"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real." - Iris Murdoch

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"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." - Casey Stengel

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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." - Mark Twain

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"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

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"I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle." - Mitch Hedberg

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"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts." - Rita Mae Brown

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"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.” - Unknown

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"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity." - Chilo

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"Life is a risk." - Diane Von Furstenberg

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"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws." - Douglas Adams

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"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are." - Nicholas Chamfort

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"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

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"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well." - Samuel Butler

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"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward

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"Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self respect springs." - Joan Didion

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"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." - Tallulah Bankhead

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"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them." - E. V. Lucas

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"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - J.K. Rowling

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"Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you." Catherine de Hueck Doherty

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"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst." Lin Yutang

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"We feel and know that we are eternal." - Baruch Spinoza

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"One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others." - Edward L. Flom

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"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life." -- Victor Hugo

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“Act as if it were impossible to fail.” - Dorthea Brande

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"For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children." - Lawana Blackwell

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"Sport is imposing order on what was chaos." - Anthony Starr

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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” ― Aristotle

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"You can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it." - Joseph Mitchell

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“We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.” ― Ronald Reagan

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"I am never afraid of what I know." - Anna Sewell

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"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight." - Barbara Schapiro

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"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France

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"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." - Will Rogers

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"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet." - Jack London

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"The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future." - Shirley Trusty Corey

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"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." - Amelia Earhart

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." -- Anais Nin

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"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." -- Elbert Hubbard

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"Good order is the foundation of all things." - Edmund Burke

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"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan

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"Beware of no one more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us." - G. K. Chesterton

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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." - Paul Valery

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"What you cannot enforce, do not command." - Sophocles

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"Sleep is the best meditation." - Dalai Lama

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"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily." -- Zig Ziglar

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"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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"Only the mediocre are always at their best." - Jean Giraudoux

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“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.” - James Joyce

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“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.” - Thomas Otway

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"Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's." - Martha Burgess

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"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." - Charles Dickens

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"For every minute, the future is becoming the past." - Thor Heyerdahl

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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." - Lois McMaster Bujold

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“Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.” - Anthony J. D'Angelo

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"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength." - A.J. Cronin

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"Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end." - Dr. Thomas Dooley

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"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win." - Robert Heinlein

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"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

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"It's a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something." - Elizabeth Gilbert

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I must take issue with the term "a mere child," for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. - Fran Lebowitz

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“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.” - Jane Fonda

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“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” - John C. Maxwell

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"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight." - Phyllis Diller

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"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'." - Larry Hardiman

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"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." - Alanis Morissette

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"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." - Confucius

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"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." - Phyllis Diller

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"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them. Every day begin the task anew." - Saint Francis de Sales

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"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

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"I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." -- Theodore Roosevelt

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"Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it." - L. M. Montgomery

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"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." -- Colin R. Davis

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"Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders." - Brian Selznick

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"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." -- Maya Angelou

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“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.” - Seneca

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"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way." - A. C. Benson

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"Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs." - P. J. O'Rourke

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"Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria--if you let it." - J. K. Rowling

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“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!” - Andy McIntyre

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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." - Harper Lee

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"Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities, and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten." - Donald E. Westlake

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"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him--and show your distrust." - Henry L. Stimson

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"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes." - Benjamin Disraeli

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"I like life. It's something to do." - Ronnie Shakes

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"We grow small trying to be great." - David Hockney

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"The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming." - Alice Munro

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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." -- Thomas A. Edison

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“I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.”- Wilson Mizner

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"There is no wealth but life." - John Ruskin

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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire

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"None of us is as smart as all of us." - Eric Schmidt

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"I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life." - David Hockney

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"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have." - Kathleen A. Sutton

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"Sometime they'll give a war, and nobody will come." - Carl Sandburg

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"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the true beauty of their carvings." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” - Oscar Wilde

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"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds." -- Albert Einstein

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"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book." - Margaret Walker

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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." - Khalil Gibran

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"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality." - Mahatma Gandhi

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"We cannot put off living until we are ready." - Jose Ortega y Gasset

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"I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me." - Angela L. Wozniak

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"Get all the fools on your side, and you can be elected to anything." - Frank Dane

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"It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch

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"When you forgive, you in no way change the past--but you sure do change the future." -- Bernard Meltzer

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"Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are." - Jean Anouilh

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"How do you know you?" - Days Of The New

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“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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You see things, and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw

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"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain--and most fools do." - Dale Carnegie

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"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis

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“Love yourself, for if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to love you?” - Barbara De Angelis

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"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." - Pierre Beaumarchais

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"Every person you talk to is a chance to change the world." - Hugh Elliott

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"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Mark Twain

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago." - Will Rogers

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"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid." - Publilius Syrus

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"Learn what is to be taken seriously, and laugh at the rest." - Hermann Hesse

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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." -- Les Brown

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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." - B. F. Skinner

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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick

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"Omit needless words." - William Strunk Jr.

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“A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.” - Jerome Blattner

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"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

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"Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie

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"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

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"We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we'd live." - Raymond Joseph Teller

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My little old dog a heart-beat at my feet - Edith Wharton

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"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing." - Joseph Roux

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I stand on this bridge, watery moonlight flows beneath me. Passing time, suspended by the night. One shore is the life I've had. The other is the Life. . . I have to go. The time is right.

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"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius

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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." - Malcolm X

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"We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

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"People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. They therefore remain bound." -- James Allen

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"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end." - Gilda Radner

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"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies, but not everyone lives." - A. Sachs

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"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." - Margaret Atwood

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint." - Albert Schweitzer

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"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." -- Henry Ward Beecher

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"He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it." - Heather Armstrong

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"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." - J. K. Rowling

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"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." - John Barth

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“Every crown is made for a head, but every head is not made for a crown.” - Unknown

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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." - Kurt Vonnegut

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"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." - Conan O'Brien

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"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." - Anne Frank

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“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” ― Napoleon Hill

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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." - Robert Frost

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“The welfare of the people is the ultimate law." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ― Winston Churchill

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“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” - Robert Schuller

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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer

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"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - Wilson Mizner

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"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." - H. G. Wells

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"You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms..." - Anna Akhmatova

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"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up--they have no holidays." - Henny Youngman

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“If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.” ― Joan Welsh

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"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer." - Dan Brown

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"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." - George Herbert

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"If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter." - Norah Jones

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“If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.” - Arabian proverb

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"It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people." - Ian McEwan

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"They're only truly great who are truly good." - George Chapman

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"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." - Sir Winston Churchill

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"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends." - Herbert Hoover

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“Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” ― Steve Jobs

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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." - Ogden Nash

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"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect." - Ted Turner

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"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all." - Ernest Shackleton

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"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent." - J. H. Holmes

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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.” ― Calvin Coolidge

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"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy." - Alfred North Whitehead

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"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." - George Moore

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"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have." - Anne Tyler

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"My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August." - Ronnie Shakes

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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Who are you, and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith." - from the movie "Police Squad"

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"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." ~ Aldous Huxley

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"It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space." - Thomas K. Mattingly II

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"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." ~ James Michener

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"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile." - Goldie Hawn

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"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self." - Millicent Fenwick

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“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” ― Mark Twain

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“Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.” - Unknown

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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ― Helen Keller

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"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources." ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love. ~ Sophocles

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"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible." - Frank Moore Colby

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"Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value." - Ann Radcliffe

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"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." - Whitney Young

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"A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful." - Maurice Sendak

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You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” ― Adlin Sinclair

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"Trust yourself, and you will know how to live." ~ Goethe

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"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later." - Mitch Hedberg

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"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." - Mahatma Gandhi

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"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody." - Franklin P. Adams

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"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth." - George Burns

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"Change is the only constant." ~ Heraclitus

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"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out." - Rodney Dangerfield

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"Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else." ~ Ivern Ball

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"I feel very strongly that change is good, because it stirs up the system." - Ann Richards

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"Men willingly believe what they wish." ~ Julius Caesar

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"More often than not, a hero's most epic battle is the one you never see; its the battle that goes on within him or herself." - Kevin Smith

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"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

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"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." - Roseanne Barr

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"The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts." ~ Lama Yeshe

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"People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt." - Mary Pettibone Poole

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"The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going." - Peter McWilliams

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“Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman

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"The imagination is man's power over nature." - Wallace Stevens

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"Take the attitude of a student. Never be too big to ask questions. Never know too much to learn something new." ~ Og Mandino

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"To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak." - C. Kent Wright

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"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." - Bil Keane

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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein

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“There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” - Archibald McLeish

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"Cherish your wilderness." - Maxine Kumin

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"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting." - Charles Bukowski

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"We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society." - Judith Martin

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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

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"Success is a journey, not a destination." - Ben Sweetland

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"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." ~ Vince Lombardi

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"Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them." ~ Jackson Brown

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"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." ~ Jacob Bronowski

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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values." - Norman Thomas

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"Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor." - Laurence J. Peter

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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." ~ Thomas Jefferson

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"The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity." - Ilya Prigogine

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"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you." - Chuck Klosterman

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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one.” ― Mark Twain

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“It's never too late--in fiction or in life--to revise." - Nancy Thayer.

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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

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"I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. ~ Helen Keller

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"The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters." - Alan Bennett

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"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." - Joel Hawes

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"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." - Clarence Thomas

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"If you fail, learn, and move on--you're growing. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

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"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die." - Marquis de Vauvenargues

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"Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work." - Gallagher

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"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry

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"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others." ~ Edelman

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"Henceforth, I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune." - Walt Whitman

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"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision." - Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life." - John F. Kennedy

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"Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes." ~ Gordon B. Hinkley

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"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them." - Benjamin Disraeli

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"Feel good, be good and do good." ~ Yogi Bhajan

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"We can't all be heroes, because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by." ~ Will Rogers

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"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare

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"I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life." - Eugene O'Neill

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“History repeats itself, but each time the price goes up.” - Unknown

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"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other." - Jascha Heifetz

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"A place for everything, everything in its place." - Benjamin Franklin

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"I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens." - Randy K. Milholland

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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

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"When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope." ~ Anonymous

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"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." - William H. Sheldon

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"He who is brave is free." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest." - Hermann Hesse

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"Faith is the daring of the soul to go further than it can see." ~ William Newton Clark

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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw

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"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." - Fred Allen

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"Leap, and the net will appear." - John Burroughs

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"There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."" - Jerry Seinfeld

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"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." - Thomas á Kempis

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“It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.” - Julie de Lespinasse

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“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” ― Johnny Cash

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"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker

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"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like, and let the food fight it out inside." - Mark Twain

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"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus

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"May your work be in keeping with your purpose." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

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"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking." ~ Albert Einstein

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"Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out." - Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

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"Make me immortal with a kiss." - Christopher Marlowe

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"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head." - Andy Rooney

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"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map, so it won't fall down." - Mitch Hedberg

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"If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all." - John Cage

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"I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm." - James Thurber

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"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." - Paul Fix

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"Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy." ~ Ralph Connor

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“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” ― John F. Kennedy

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"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." ~ David Viscott

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"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward." ~ Princess Diana Spencer

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"You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone." - Real Live Preacher

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"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances." - Jay Leno

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"We read frequently, if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own." - Harold Bloom

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package." John Ruskin

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"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." - Peter Ustinov

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“Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused.” - Unknown

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"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other." - Honore de Balzac

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"We do not know what we want, and yet we are responsible for what we are--that is the fact." - Jean-Paul Sartre

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"Artistic imagination must remain free." ~ Andre Breton

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"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." - Victoria Holt

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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." Charles Kingsley

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"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." - Rachel Carson

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"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself." - Albert Einstein

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"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

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"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness." - Sigmund Freud

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“Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.” ― Jennifer M. Granholm

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"If he works for you, you work for him." ~ Japanese Proverb

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"I am the mess you chose, the closet you cannot close." - Staind

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"I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a bystander can judge of." - Jane Austen

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Freedom isn't free. Thank you to all veterans, past and present, for your sacrifices, for our freedom.

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"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely." - Lorraine Hansberry

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"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens

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"I'm not going to tell the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it." - from the movie "Great Expectations" (1998)

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"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

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"Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go." - Sylvia Robinson

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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe." - Leo Rosten

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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way." ~ George Herman ("Babe") Ruth

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"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

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"Whenever you fall, pick something up." ~ Oswald Avery

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"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way." - Carl Sandburg

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"All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else." ~ Mae West

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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom..” ― Marcel Proust

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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing

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"Everybody needs somebody." - Mahalia Jackson

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"Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the earth." ~ Vladimir Nabokov

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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new to emerge." ~ Eckhart Tolle

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"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours." ~ Mark Twain

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"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." - Henry David Thoreau

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"Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!" - Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan

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"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes de Mille

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"I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight." - Robin Green

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"Believe you can, and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

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"In a gentle way, you can shake the world." ~ Gandhi

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"To play it safe is not to play." ~ Robert Altman

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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ― Thomas A. Edison

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"Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere." - Margaret Wise Brown

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"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." - Robert Benchley

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"You learn a lot about people when you play games with them." - Laura Moncur

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"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed." - Sydney Smith

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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." ~ Albert Einstein

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"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." ~ Aristotle

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“Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.” - Ben Jonson

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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.” ― Leo Buscaglia

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"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." ~ Malcolm Forbes

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"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. " - Robert Heinlein

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"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." - James Gordon

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"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." - James Magary

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"The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway." ~ Dr. Kent M. Keith

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"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." - Alexander Pope

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"All generalizations are false, including this one." ~ Mark Twain

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"We do not laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh." ~ William James

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"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it." - Jesse Stuart

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"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end." ~ Henry Miller

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"Hold plans lightly, like you'd hold a feather. Then when the unexpected happens, letting go is easy." ~ Zen Moments

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"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard

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"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France

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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." - Wilson Mizner

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"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best." - Benjamin Disraeli

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"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." - Henry David Thoreau

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"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow." ~ Swedish proverb

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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway

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"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." ~ Albert Einstein

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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" - George Carlin

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"Life is what we make it--always has been, always will be." ~ Grandma Moses

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"Cheerfulness is the atmosphere under which all things thrive." ~ Jean Paul Richter

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"If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in." ~ Marianne Williamson

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"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." - Madeleine L'Engle

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"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice." - Oprah Winfrey

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"We are what we believe we are." - C. S. Lewis

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"I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are." - Frances Moore Lappe

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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." ~ Albert Einstein

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"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell

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"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." ~ G.K. Chesterton

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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller

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"Do your thing and don't care if they like it." - Tina Fey

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"If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity." ~ Alex Bogusky

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"It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know." ~ Henry David Thoreau

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"The impossible is often the untried." ~ Jim Goodwin

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"The world's perverse, but it could be worse." - Mona Van Duyn

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“ We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” ― Walt Disney

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"If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you." - Gary Paulsen

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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” ― Booker T. Washington

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"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back." - Abigail Van Buren

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"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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"To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character." - Marie Leneru

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