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Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
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Alban Goodier
No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
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Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
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Ben Azai, Mishna
We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
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William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
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Chinese Proverb
The highest result of education is tolerance.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), 'Optimism,' 1903
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
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.
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Marlo Thomas
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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May Sarton
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
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Jewish Proverb
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.
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Shakti Gawain
I could prove God statistically.
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George Gallup (1901 - 1984)
A good home must be made, not bought.
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Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs"
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
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Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
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Frank Scully
The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.
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Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
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Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
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James Carroll
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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