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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05
- He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
- Don Juan Manuel (1282 - 1349)
- Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2
- Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
- Little by little, one travels far.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
- Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
- French Proverb
- Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982)
- Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
- Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), "More Than a Hero"
- One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
- Marlo Thomas
- Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
- The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
- Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
- It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
- Emiliano Zapata (1877 - 1919)
- To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), An Essay on Self-Reliance
- Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb
- You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.
- Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)
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