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- You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.
- Vernon Howard
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
- Jean Shinoda Bolen
- I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
- Cynthia Ozick
- We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold.
- Archibald MacLeish (1892 - 1982)
- Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
- Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
- Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
- Ralph W. Sockman
- Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
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