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Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.: Gail Pool
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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The longest journey is the journey inward.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.: Joan Didion (1934 - )
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The covers of this book are too far apart.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.: Denzel Washington (1954 - )
One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.: Emil Zatopek
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide, 1759
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Disappearing can be quite the coping mechanism for those of us who fear abandonment the very most of all. If we disappear, you have to find us. You're the one who worries. We know where we are, but you can't leave me. I'm in charge and doing the leaving. Not the other way around.: Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, Disappearing Act, 03-06-12
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I stand in awe of my body.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.: Paul Eldridge
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.: Carlos Castaneda
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.: Whoopi Goldberg
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
Guilt is helpful only when it keeps us acting in line with our beliefs and morals. Otherwise, it creates needless suffering.: 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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