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What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.: Doug Larson
Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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Worries go down better with soup than without.: Jewish Proverb
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The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.: John Lancaster Spalding
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.: Unknown, African Proverb
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.: Mary Catherine Bateson
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 438 B.C.
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.: Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889)
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.: Indian Proverb
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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates