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The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.: Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.: David M. Ogilvy
Strive for excellence, not perfection.: H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.: Lin Yutang
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If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.: Cher (1946 - )
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840
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Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.: Chilo
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At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.: Phillip C. McGraw, O Magazine, February 2003
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.: Rita Mae Brown
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.: John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838
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We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.: Edward Sellner
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.: Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.: Sidney J. Harris
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They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Elijah Aron, Jordan Young, Raising Hope, Cheaters, April 2011
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