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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.: Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
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Praise youth and it will prosper.: Irish Proverb
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Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09-17-05
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.: Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003
If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.: Matthew V. Lewis, House M.D., Last Resort, 2008
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Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.: John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), 1647
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Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.: Hobart Brown
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
It is the letter not sent that is often the most valuable.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 12-19-2011
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.: Rebecca Beard
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.: Mae West (1892 - 1980), Klondike Annie (1936 film)
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Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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This idea of contented well-being as simply a by-product of personal industry is a recurring theme in a variety of philosophical traditions around the world. In other words, happiness is the result of our actions directed toward other goals.: Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method, 2018
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.: Gail Godwin
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937