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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.': Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.: Robert J. Furey
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I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.: Monica Baldwin
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She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.: Marita Bonner
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.: Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.: William Raspberry
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.: Cindy Gardner
Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...: Joan Didion (1934 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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What happens when the future has come and gone?: Robert Half
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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.: Evelyn Underhill
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
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