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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009
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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2005
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We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.: Clement Atlee
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), September 11, 1956
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
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A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.: Kate Clinton
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.: Paula Poundstone