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- I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
- Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
- Jim Bishop
- Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
- Doris Mortman
- The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.
- Belle Livingstone
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