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I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.: Jennifer Louden
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), O Magazine, October 2003
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I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.: Frank Deford
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.: Irving Wallace
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.: Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
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Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
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Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.: National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.: William Langland (1332 - 1400)
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, December 6, 1911
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.: Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
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Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.: David Letterman (1947 - )
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.: Caroline K. Simon
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.: Reverend Edward A. Malloy, Monk's Reflections
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