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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 09, 2014

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.: Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.: Ecclesiastes
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.: Reverend Edward A. Malloy, Monk's Reflections
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.: Leo Burnett

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