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If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.: Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.: Shirley Temple (1928 - )
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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.: Christina Baldwin
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If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.: Ausonius
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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It is the caring and sharing that count—love is not prevented by the things and the time that you haven’t shared.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.': Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.: John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)