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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.: Ann Richards
Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.: William Raspberry
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.: Joe E. Lewis
You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.: Robert Orben
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.: Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
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I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.: Marian Evans
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.: Simone de Beauvoir
I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.: Angela L. Wozniak
I think there's a god and I know it's not me.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.: Irish Proverb
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The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.: Robert Fulghum (1937 - ), It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.: May Sarton
You try to give away what you want yourself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.: Chinese Proverb
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