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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.: Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
Fools rush in where fools have been before.: Unknown
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
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Feel the fear and do it anyway.: Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988
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Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.: Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955)
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.: Frank Tyger
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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.: Latin Proverb
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.: Joseph de Maistre
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed; also attributed to Ann Landers)
It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
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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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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