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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.: Alban Goodier
No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?: 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.: Ben Azai, Mishna
We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.: 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.": William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.: Chinese Proverb
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The highest result of education is tolerance.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), 'Optimism,' 1903
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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.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
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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.: Marlo Thomas
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.: May Sarton
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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.: Jewish Proverb
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Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.: Shakti Gawain
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I could prove God statistically.: George Gallup (1901 - 1984)
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A good home must be made, not bought.: Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs"
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We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.: Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?: Frank Scully
The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.: 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.: James Carroll
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