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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.: George F. Will (1941 - )
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time.: Gregory Garcia and Dan Coscino, Raising Hope, Happy Halloween, October 26, 2010
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.: Amelia Burr
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.: Native American Proverb
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Adventure is just bad planning.: Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
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It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.: Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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