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Live well. It is the greatest revenge.: The Talmud
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In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.: Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-22-05
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.: John Herschel (1792 - 1871)
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
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Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Walking is man's best medicine.: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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