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If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
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 own 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)
No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), Unkempt Thoughts
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.: Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), 518-438 B.C.
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.: William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
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It's never just a game when you're winning.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.: Kathleen Casey Theisen
Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.: Unknown
I dote on his very absence.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
The covers of this book are too far apart.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.: Alvin Toffler
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.: Margery Cuyler
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Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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