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The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Life is consciousness.: Emmet Fox
I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.: Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
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If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.: Liz Friedman, House M.D., Hunting, 2005
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.: Irish Proverb
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The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.: Arnold Palmer (1929 - )
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.: Henry J. Tillman
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.: Madame de Tencin
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[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.: Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)
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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.: J. G. Holland
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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.: William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.: Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)