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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.: Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)
Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.: Rose Cherin
If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.: Indian Proverb
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.: Thomas Overbury (1581 - 1613)
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Caltech commencement address, 1974
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.: Christina Baldwin
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I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.: Jennifer Louden
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
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Health is not simply the absence of sickness.: Hannah Green
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.: Gloria Naylor
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.: A. J. Kitt
Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
All things must change to something new, to something strange.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.: Meister Eckhart
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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