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- Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
- Anonymous
- You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
- Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
- No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
- Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
- Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
- Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
- Marchioness Townsend
- Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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