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Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05
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He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.: Don Juan Manuel (1282 - 1349)
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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.: Raymond Lindquist
Little by little, one travels far.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.: French Proverb
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Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.: Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982)
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), "More Than a Hero"
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One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.: Marlo Thomas
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.: Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.: Emiliano Zapata (1877 - 1919)
To be great is to be misunderstood.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), An Essay on Self-Reliance
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.: Slovenian Proverb
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You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.: Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)