Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - April 23, 2008
A smiling face is half the meal.
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Latvian Proverb  
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
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Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)  
In terms of being late or not starting at all, then it's never too late.
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Alison Headley, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006  
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811  

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