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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go.: Carol Burnett (1936 - )
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
Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
Even God cannot change the past.: Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC)
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.: Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 1590
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.: Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman, 1982
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Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.: Ed Greenwood
Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.: Robert Veninga
The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.: J. H. Holmes
If you don't know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something.: David Peterson
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999