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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.: Pema Chodron
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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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Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.: Baltasar Gracian
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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.: Quentin Crisp
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.': Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?: Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
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Even writers need relief from words.: Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.: Bernard Bailey
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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.: Jane Howard, "Families"
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
I like sports bars. Sports bars are great because they collect all of the people I don't want to hang out with, and put them in one room.: Demetri Martin, The Overthinker, Netflix, 2018
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.: Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
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Above all things, reverence yourself.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.: Ellen Metcalf
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