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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.: Philip Adams
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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.: Dorothy Bernard
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If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home.: April Foiles
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.: Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718)
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You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period.: Steven Conrad, Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
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The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.: Charlotte-Catherine
Our children change us... whether they live or not.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.: Gavin McDonald, Scottish Bicyclist, 04-15-2006
You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.: Lydia M. Child
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.": H. E. Martz
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Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.: Gallagher
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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.: Piet Hein (1905 - ), "Grooks"
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)