Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - November 09, 2018
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
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Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)  
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997  
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)  
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005  

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