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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.: Mary MacCracken
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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.: Jane Wagner
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.: Rodney Yee
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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.: Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
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If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.: Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.: Meladee McCarty
People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.: William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
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A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), The Advancement of Learning, 1605
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Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.: Audrey Giorgi
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?: Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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