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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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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.: Baltasar Gracian
Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.: Alan Alda (1936 - )
It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.: Dan Seligman, in 'Forbes Magazine'
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.: Simone de Beauvoir
Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.: David Russell, I Heart Huckabee's
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.: Charles Victor Cherbuliez
One picture is worth a thousand words.: Fred R. Barnard
Women should be obscene and not heard.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.: Blake Clark