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The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 2, 08-22-04
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.: Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.: Bernard Bailey
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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open.: Emmet Fox
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.: Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.: Dudley Moore (1935 - 2002)
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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.: Mickey Mantle (1931 - 1995), (attributed)
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.: Baltasar Gracian
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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.: Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )