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You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
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Michael McClary
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Never give advice unless asked.
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German Proverb
Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.
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Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook
O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc. 1
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'On Giving,' The Prophet, 1923
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
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A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 - 1943)
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
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Joey Adams
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
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Richard Rybolt
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
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Edward Chilton
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
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Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.
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Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
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Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
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Michael Hanson
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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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