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A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
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Amelia Burr
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
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Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Incidentals (1907)
An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.
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Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
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Billy Joel (1949 - )
When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.
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Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 12-29-05
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
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Maya Angelou (1928 - ), in Daily News
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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Quentin Crisp
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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Russell Baker (1925 - )
Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Nathaniel Branden
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
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Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
It's better to be a company than to work for a company.
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Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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