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Nothing ever goes away.: Barry Commoner (1917 - )
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.: Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse, O Magazine, October 2002
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), State of Fear
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.: John Updike (1932 - )
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?: Rose Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?: Jean Kerr
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
This life gets bitterly cold. Sometimes you just need to cling to the person that you can claw your way out of the dark with.: Chris Dingess, Being Human, Wouldn't It Be Nice (If We Were Human), 2011
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2003
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.: Anonymous
A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things - a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.: John Grogan, Marley and Me, 2005
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.: Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.': Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.: Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday, 2004