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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
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One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.: Etty Hillesum
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.: Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718)
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
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The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), lecture 1854
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You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.: M. F. K. Fisher
Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us - Life is the test of us!: Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)