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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.: Unknown
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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.: Shakti Gawain
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.: Johann K. Lavater
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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
When weight loss becomes a goal in your life, eating right and exercising are just two pieces of the puzzle. Figuring out why you've put on the extra weight is the hardest part.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.: Quintilian
Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.: Bob Moawad
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.: Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2
Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.: Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
College isn't the place to go for ideas.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.: Victoria Holt
You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.: Bob Ross (1942 - 1995), Best of Joy of Painting, Winter Elegance
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