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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
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To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.: Berton Averre
I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.': Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.: Brendan Gill
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Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.: Mary Field Belenky, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind, p. 187
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.: Simone de Beauvoir
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.: Katharine Butler Hathaway
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I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.: Doug Larson
Honesty is the best image.: Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.: Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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