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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
You don’t have to live your life so that your life is suitable for small talk. Life can be lived in ways that circumnavigate a myriad of colors and landscapes.
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Cherie Ve Ard, Technomadia, 04-04-2013
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
What worries you masters you.
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Haddon W. Robinson
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
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Piero Ferrucci
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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George Washington (1732 - 1799)
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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Rita Mae Brown
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Marian Evans
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Forever is composed of nows.
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Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
The world belongs to the energetic.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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