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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - November 04, 2026
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784  
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)  
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' Act III, scene ii  
When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.
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Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008  
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